The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.

Bioluminescent firefly squid light up this Japanese fishing port.

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

If Hello Kitty were Mickey Mouse, this would be Disneyland.

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

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

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

The magical, mossy forest that inspired Princess Mononoke.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

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

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

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

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

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

The only thing sweeter than the potatoes is the canine proprietor of this roadside stall.

Ninety years of Sydney buses under one roof.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

This abandoned, turn-of-the-century astronomy hub is now the subject of more photographs than it ever took.

The hermits of Karoulia protect their asocial lifestyles by living on the vertical face of a treacherous precipice.

An otherworldly restaurant perched on the edge of a jagged cliff next to a medieval holy city.

A historic observatory precariously perched at the "Top of Europe."

This precariously perched fortress was once ruled by a crow-worshipping baron.

A castle perched precariously over the Crimean Sea.