These wondrously illuminated caverns extend under the mountains of the Fukushima Prefecture.

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

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

With over 12,000 different species of plants, this botanical garden is Japan's oldest and most diverse.

Open-air museum with an elaborate sculpture garden, stretching for over 70,000 square-meters.

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

The magical, mossy forest that inspired Princess Mononoke.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

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

The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

Thirty architectural gems from the 19th- and early 20th-century Tokyo were restored and relocated to this space.

A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.

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

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

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

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

An eccentric garden of sculptures crafted in India decorate an Irish green space dedicated to Alan Turing.

A secret door leads to this cozy dive that sells only “milk.”

The elaborate clockwork contraptions in this Scottish gallery create small worlds of whimsy and horror.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.