Japan's largest and oldest annual procession of floats, begun in 869.

The floats housed in this hall are more than 100 years old, and are brought out for an annual celebration.

This beautiful Japanese garden is a memorial to the samurai who literally wrote the book on business as martial art.

The largest collection of model trains in the world is actually run using full-size locomotive technology.

A statue erected on an infamous cliff where young boys would hold dangerous "pee offs" to prove their mettle.

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

An astounding annual light display honors the victims of one of Japan's most devastating earthquakes.

The largest volcanic caldera in Japan holds an entire city in its maw.

Go through the looking glass in Tokyo's Wonderland-themed shop.

A steaming, boiling hellscape sources Hokkaido's thermal baths.

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

Giant sand sculptures of famous people and places are on display near the Tottori sand dunes.

This town near Nagasaki is flecked with fruit-flavored bus stops.

A giant robo-cockroach building devours Tokyo.

A strange tribute to all the fallen souls of war.

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

Founded over a thousand years ago, this shrine is said to be built on the site of a warlord's harem prison.

Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

Giant art made in Japanese rice fields.

This active volcano's siren song to suicide jumpers forced authorities to build a fence.

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

Each year this Japanese temple overflows with scowling, bearded good luck talismans.

Children's literature inside, forest all around.

As the aging humans of this Japanese village die off one local artisan is replacing them with eerie homonculi.