A rare festival blending religion, blacksmiths, vagina dentata, sex workers, and the straight-up facts of life.

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

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

This mesmerizingly colorful pond looks like a scene straight out of a fairytale.

The 43-mile route crosses through six islands with gorgeous views of the Seto Inland Sea.

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

Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.

The world’s first hotel to be run by robots.

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

This ancient temple is set up to take you on a pilgrimage of self.

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

A Japanese corporation has turned this small island town into living modern art gallery.

A Buddhist temple to honor insects that died for science.

Meet the world's longest tapeworm in a collection that really gets under your skin.

The world's largest drain sits below the city of Kasukabe, Japan.

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

Museum showcases Japanese sexuality and some amazing ocean views.

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

Enormous underground chamber built to detect 'ghost particles' of the universe.

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

Steaming blood-red hot spring from hell.

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

Go through the looking glass in Tokyo's Wonderland-themed shop.

Reportedly 1,400 years old, this may be the first of the Fiji Mermaids.