If Hello Kitty were Mickey Mouse, this would be Disneyland.

A rare festival blending religion, blacksmiths, vagina dentata, sex workers, and the straight-up facts of life.

Every color in the rainbow awaits.

Meet the world's longest tapeworm in a collection that really gets under your skin.

Go through the looking glass in Tokyo's Wonderland-themed shop.

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

After a profound show of devotion for his master, a dog becomes the symbol of loyalty for an entire nation.

One man's lifetime collection of tiny objects of wisdom gathered from around the world, on display for public enjoyment.

The world’s first hotel to be run by robots.

Historical Japanese-Dutch relations are honored with haunted rides and flower fields in this replica town.

As the aging humans of this Japanese village die off one local artisan is replacing them with eerie homonculi.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

This town near Nagasaki is flecked with fruit-flavored bus stops.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

The magical, mossy forest that inspired Princess Mononoke.

This beautiful ridge-top trail is dotted by tiny homes apparently built by a group of itinerant fairies.

An 18th century monument regularly tagged with unsettling graffiti referencing a 1940s unsolved murder.

Possibly the oldest living thing in Europe, more likely a pagan survivor.