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

This mountain's identity is stuck somewhere between a nightmare and a scenic tourist attraction.

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

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

Children's literature inside, forest all around.

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

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

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

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.

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

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

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

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

The demolished ruins of a poorly located Japanese Love Hotel.

A calico cat named Tama was the wildly popular Super Station Master at this train stop in southeast Japan.

This ruined Japanese stripclub sits half burnt to the ground.

An unlikely hit, this museum is dedicated to the inventor of instant ramen and cup noodles.

After a short 5 year run, this former major theme park sits in ruin.

The third-tallest statue in the world depicts the "Buddha of Infinite Light," complete with observation deck in his chest.

The ruins of Japan’s premier water brothel.

A sculpture that resurrected the only tree standing following the devastating 2011 tsunami.