Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

A beautiful bamboo trail tucked in this famous Japanese Shrine.

Japanese national treasure originally built in 593 CE.

The quintessential Japanese rock garden has existed for more than 500 years.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

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

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

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

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

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

Dublin's most modern, visually spectacular bridge is modeled after Ireland's national emblem.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

Mortarless walls that stretch for miles are a lovely solution for creating grazing land in the harsh terrain of the Aran Islands.

A steam trawler with a whiskey-soaked history driven ashore in 1960 resides rusty but still standing on the shoreline.

This controversial Irish show cave is home to a massive formation known as the Great Stalactite.

The ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.

Perfectly preserved ancient monastery in an impossibly dramatic location on a rocky island in the Atlantic.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

A hugely vast Irish landscape of barren rock that stretches for miles.

After the musical legend's death, his memorial was mysteriously graffitied in gold.

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

This posh mansion began as a family's estate and ended as the site of a murder ripped from the pages of a pulp novel.

A sleepy little town that had the greatest landslide in North American history fall on it.

The intense competition of the 19th-century fur trading industry played out at this fort in Western Canada.