Shells collected from over a hundred different countries line the walls, floors and ceilings of this fantasy museum.

This mesmerizingly colorful pond looks like a scene straight out of a fairytale.

Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

The magical, mossy forest that inspired Princess Mononoke.

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

A unique Shinto shrine filled with bunnies and wordplay.

Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

Haunted house kitsch meets Japanese folklore at this theme bar where patrons can “die” and have their own mock funeral.

Sidle into a side alley for a taste of sumo wrestlers' traditional hot-pot soup, in a tiny restaurant founded by a former competitor.

A Catholicism-themed restaurant where sacrilege is on the menu.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

Rows of stone statues are dressed up to mourn children that are lost before birth.