These Japanese gardens are blankets of light for dark winter nights.

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

The ruins of Japan’s premier water brothel.

The world's largest radiation field is probably our best bet for irradiated vegetable superheroes.

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

Shells collected from over a hundred different countries line the walls, floors and ceilings of this fantasy museum.

Only electricity pylon built over two lanes of traffic.

This giant seated Bhudda of Healing dates to the 1780s.

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

A small island with no monkeys but plenty of military ruins.

Oddly touching memorial to a little-remembered nuclear tragedy.

This seven story Japanese love hotel now stands in ruins.

Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.

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

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

Japanese company creates clone dolls that reside in the "uncanny valley."

This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

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

Starship-temple contains 400 tons of drinking water and offers free Japanese lessons.

Meet the world's longest tapeworm in a collection that really gets under your skin.

This giant bronze Buddha, the third largest in Japan, is the last in an ill-fated series of statues.

A giant robo-cockroach building devours Tokyo.

This historical theme park celebrates all things noodle.

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