The 10,000 Torii shrine.

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

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

High in the mountains of Kochi Prefecture, a magnificent library designed by a world-famous architect.

These Japanese ruins have been brought back to life with elaborately recreated buildings.

Legend says the goddess this shrine honors curses any couples that pass by.

"Singing sands" and the world's largest hourglass reside near Japan's Kotogahama beach.

This incredible mountainside temple is home to intriguing statues of demon-like creatures.

This seven story Japanese love hotel now stands in ruins.

This Japanese Manneken Pis gets new outfits for every occasion.

A 17th-century Shinto shrine that is home to statues of Mickey Mouse and Pikachu.

If you forgot something to read during your trip to Tokyo, this hostel has you covered.

Ruins and statues dot the landscape of this tiny island rich with royal history.

A quaint amusement park now sits, rusting and forgotten among the foliage.

A dilapidated amusement park with a million-dollar view.

After being lost for decades, this striking mural depicting the atomic bomb covers the wall of a busy Tokyo metro station.

The world's shortest escalator doesn't seem to have any reason to exist other than to hold a world record.

An abandoned Art Deco hotel nestled on the side of a wooded mountain.

You can still find treasures on the pebbly beaches of one of the world's oldest jade-producing areas.

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

A mysterious set of tunnels carved in the hills of rural northern Kyushu.

The small candy-colored ride is the last rooftop Ferris wheel in Tokyo.

A flight of this "ghost staircase" has 40 steps on the way up, but only 39 steps on the way down.

A network of sandy streets lined with verdant fukugi trees weaves throughout this tiny seaside town.