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

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

Largest graveyard in all of Japan surrounds a famous mausoleum.

This little replica of Lady Liberty provides a bit of NYC in a Japanese city.

Closed for decades, this strange symbol of Japan's Expo '70 has finally opened its psychedelic insides to the public.

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

A real-life replica of a home from Hayao Miyazaki's beloved movie "My Neighbor Totoro."

The Hanshin Expressway goes right through its 5th, 6th, and 7th floors.

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

This pair of small sea rocks has been "wed" using rope and ancient Shinto tradition.

Serving you alcohol with a side of insanity. Also, costumes!

We heard you like volcanoes so we put a volcano in your volcano so you can die for sure...

One of the first hotel rooms in a pod.

Starship-temple contains 400 tons of drinking water and offers free Japanese lessons.

Drinkslinger is an unlikely vocation for a Buddhist monk, but at this Tokyo bar the enlightenment is served in a martini glass.

Legend holds eating just one of these black eggs can add seven years to one's life.

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

A bronze statue dating back as far as 1252, still has remnants of gold on its right cheek from ancient gilding.

Japanese company creates clone dolls that reside in the "uncanny valley."

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.

An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.