Steaming blood-red hot spring from hell.

The only thing sweeter than the potatoes is the canine proprietor of this roadside stall.

An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.

This historical theme park celebrates all things noodle.

The oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years, even catering to samurai.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

This incredible mountainside temple is home to intriguing statues of demon-like creatures.

A mysterious set of tunnels carved in the hills of rural northern Kyushu.

Barbies stare from the walls, sit on the tables, and even pop out of cakes at this quirky cafe.

At a Japanese train station, a goddess emerges from a dumpling.

A park built around the legend of a clam-loving giant who created a monumental midden.

A museum in Hokkaido is housed in a former high school. On its grounds a marker shares the awakening of a man who longs to be reunited with his soulmate in the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere.

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

One of the tallest statues in the world, and the tallest statue of a goddess in Japan.

A deserted island in southwest Japan that once sheltered persecuted Christians.

What's believed to be the country's first shrine is, in Shintō mythology, the annual meeting place of the gods.

The cemetery houses the remains of Jun’ichirō Tanizaki, one of Japan's most famous novelists.

The statue's head is one of the few fragments of the original Urakami Cathedral to survive the atomic bomb.

Haunted house kitsch meets Japanese folklore at this theme bar where patrons can “die” and have their own mock funeral.

This traditional Japanese-style house doubles as one of James Turrell's colorful works of art.

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

A 14th-century European chapel sticks out of the facade of a Japanese hotel.

One of the bloodiest and most important battles in Japanese history is recreated with kitschy concrete statues.

Constructed thousands of years ago, these stone circles offer incredible insight into the lives of the people who built them.