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

One of the best-preserved remains of "Tokyo's lost rivers."

Haunted house kitsch meets Japanese folklore at this theme bar where patrons can “die” and have their own mock funeral.

A tiny cafe that recreates the Japanese elementary school lunch experience.

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

This bar is filled with Star Wars merchandise from around the world, all of it unlicensed knockoffs.

Take a few seconds to look at this abandoned, art-filled station as you pass by on the subway to Ueno.

Rows of stone statues are dressed up to mourn children that are lost before birth.

A Buddhist temple to honor insects that died for science.

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

This odd museum/art gallery embraces the physiological, zoological, and ethnographic side of sex.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

A massive cave complex boasts some of the clearest water (and most charming bats) in the world.

Japanese island famous for poison gas and fluffy bunnies.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

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

Giant animal sculptures are created with the rice straw leftover from the fall harvest each year.

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

Make your own fake treats at this factory and workshop in the epicenter of Japan's food replica industry.

The freshest fish here are the ones you catch yourself.

Go inside a revolutionary, cage-less zoo where 70 species of monkeys roam free alongside their human visitors.

A miniature city, once ruled by the Queen of the Netherlands.

Birthplace of the "Cat in the Cradle" and a cluster of iconic, original windmills that let the Dutch tame the seas.

Hidden within a Netherlands crater is a stone bed that lets those who lie in it see the sky as a curved surface.