A half-buried vehicle in Prague's is the latest iteration in a long-running piece by Czech artist David Černý.

Next door to Tokyo DisneySea is a giant sculpture created by Taro Okamoto symbolizing the dynamism of life.

Located in a remote mountain valley in Yamagata Prefecture, these hot springs have attracted bathers for over 450 years.

The hometown of a beloved manga artist created a treasure hunt for his popular ghostly characters.

Tragic reminders of the 1945 firebombing campaign over Tokyo still haunt this bridge.

Although it has never been a secret ninja base, this shrine still has plenty of tricks up its sleeve.

A collection of more than 1,000 teddies from nearly any profession.

An ingenious solution to a tricky engineering problem, this spiraling bridge takes drivers for a dizzying spin.

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

The first location of the eventual video game giant.

This beautiful Japanese garden is a memorial to the samurai who literally wrote the book on business as martial art.

When this clock strikes a certain time, puppets showcase a story of life in Edo Japan.

The largest collection of model trains in the world is actually run using full-size locomotive technology.

A 59-ft. robot statue looks over the citizens of earthquake-ravaged Kobe.

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

Elaborate series of tunnels where traces of mass suicide are still visible.

The Buddhist temples of Yamadera, built into a mountain side, feature a viewing deck with sweeping views.

Burial mound for the ears and noses of thousands of mutilated Korean soldiers.

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

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

This active volcano's siren song to suicide jumpers forced authorities to build a fence.

People from around the world visit the shrine of Japan’s legendarily loyal dog.

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

A Japanese cat island also populated by the descendants of a band of banished samurai.