For hundreds of years, participants in this Japanese festival have been making babies cry to ward off demons.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.

Japanese company creates clone dolls that reside in the "uncanny valley."

The freshest fish here are the ones you catch yourself.

A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.

The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

Plenty of old carney magic still haunts this photogenic amusement park.

A remnant of Korea's colonial past lies forgotten in a hip neighborhood in Seoul.

A chilling monument to Korean patriots who resisted the Japanese occupation.

A magically clear, blue river that seems to spring from nowhere.

Bohol's mysterious brown hills.

The remains of an abandoned air force hospital located on a redeveloped Air Force base.

An island in the middle of a lake, in the middle of a volcano, in the middle of a bigger lake, in the middle of a bigger island, in an archipelago, in the Pacific Ocean.

An eatery in a shallow river where diners can enjoy their meal mere feet from the base of an artificial waterfall.

Beijing's version of Disneyland, completely abandoned, mostly destroyed.

The largest radio telescope in the world searches for extraterrestrial life from the remote limestone peaks of southern China.

The so-called "Richest Village In China" is either a model Communist town or a dystopian sham.

A chinese farmer builds robots from scrap.

130 replicas of world wonders squeezed into just 118 acres of space.

This smaller cousin of the Forbidden City has gone from ancestral sacrifice to tourist's whispers.

This sensational Chinese temple walks visitors through the 76 weird departments of the afterlife.