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

An infamous house made famous by director Takashi Shimizu.

A semi-abandoned replica of Prince Edward Island's Avonlea—in Japan.

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

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

The ruin of a Japanese love hotel almost completely overgrown with brambles.

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

White beach sands made of the remains of tiny, star shaped creatures.

The ruins of Japan’s premier water brothel.

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

This sawtooth mountain range still bears the strangely lovely marks of its history as a medieval quarry.

This ruined Japanese stripclub sits half burnt to the ground.

A massive cave complex boasts some of the clearest water (and most charming bats) in the world.

Abandoned Japanese ghost town gives a glimpse into what our own metropolises may leave behind.

A 70-foot-deep ice cave formed by lava from Mt. Fuji on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest." 

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

Japanese island famous for poison gas and fluffy bunnies.

Hanging over one of Japan's "hidden valleys," these vine bridges must be remade every three years.

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

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

A lakeside garden in the Southern Alps full of whimsical artwork and thousands of beautiful flowers.

This rusting remnant of the local herring industry is being given a second life.

The largest open-air contemporary art center in Latin America is a unique experience in the Atlantic Forest.