This offbeat trailer park is home to vintage peddlers, local artists, indie makers, and more.

A bookstore with an entire room dedicated to damaged and forlorn comic books.

Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

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

A hole-in-the-wall antiquities museum in one of Tokyo's most popular megamalls.

Inspired by the famous sculptures on Easter Island, this head serves as a popular meeting spot by Shibuya Station.

This enormous monument is one of the most iconic structures in Tokyo, rudely nicknamed "The Golden Turd."

Designed by a computer, this intricate network of fluorescent green pipes has taken over a subway station.

Unbeknownst to most passersby, this marble statue standing outside an office building is a genuine piece of second-century Rome.

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

These unique toilets feature transparent glass covered in PDLC film.

Dedicated to the armor and weapons used by the legendary Japanese warriors.

This Japanese Manneken Pis gets new outfits for every occasion.

Sidle into a side alley for a taste of sumo wrestlers' traditional hot-pot soup, in a tiny restaurant founded by a former competitor.

The tallest city hall in the world offers an excellent bento box.

Weighing nearly 7 tons, this massive sculpture was carved out of 500-year-old wood and decorated with thousands of jewels.

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

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.

Oddly touching memorial to a little-remembered nuclear tragedy.

An unexpected curiosity cabinet hidden within a department store in the Japan Post tower.

This sprawling scenic burial ground is the final resting place of Japan's last shogun.

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