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

This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

An infamous house made famous by director Takashi Shimizu.

A remarkable lava formation encloses a line of Buddhist statues that can't be accurately counted, according to local mythology.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

This temple is steeped in local folklore involving a teakettle and a raccoon dog.

This little known mountain has claimed four times as many lives as Everest.

A centuries-old complex of hand-dug stone chambers has sheltered locals in times of trouble.

Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.

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

This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.

Underneath this small church are 15,000 bones, arranged by an obsessive academic.

For centuries no one knew there were hundreds of bones and precious artwork hidden beneath this Swiss church.

Naturally preserved bodies are eerily staged throughout the crypt in varying poses.

The World Wide Web was created in this nondescript corridor at CERN.

A mythically themed self-built sculpture park.

A Black Forest cuckoo clock theme park features one timepiece big enough to walk inside.

Extensive private collection of authentic Medieval devices used for human torture and execution.

This unusual piece of Renaissance art depicting the bodily horror of crucifixion and skin disease may have been inspired by fungus-induced hallucinations.

This museum tells the story of lake dwellers from 4000 BC to 850 BC, replete with stilt houses and goats.

This unique Renaissance castle was turned into a home for Nazi occultism.

An intricate and amazing house built by architect Karl Junker.