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

The magical, mossy forest that inspired Princess Mononoke.

These seven moai figures are the world's only sanctioned replicas of the Easter Island originals.

The giant figure on the back of this turtle-shaped temple actually hides a memorial pendulum.

A sobering scientific reminder of the human damage caused by the advent of the nuclear age.

A hub of information on tropical diseases and their treatments.

The statue's head is one of the few fragments of the original Urakami Cathedral to survive the atomic bomb.

The world’s first hotel to be run by robots.

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

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.

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

Steaming blood-red hot spring from hell.

These Japanese ruins have been brought back to life with elaborately recreated buildings.

A small Japanese village claims to be the final resting place of the son of God (and God's other son's ear).

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

Giant art made in Japanese rice fields.

One of Japan's most famous sights, the bridge was originally built in 1673.

This enormous "shamoji" means more to the people of Miyajima than just a way getting rice onto a plate.

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

Constructed thousands of years ago, these stone circles offer incredible insight into the lives of the people who built them.

"Excuse me sir, your submarine is blocking my building."

Museum dedicated to the largest battleship ever built.

Abandoned Japanese ghost town gives a glimpse into what our own metropolises may leave behind.