Historic psychiatric asylum and most-filmed location in the Great White North.

The picturesque remains of an abandoned silver mine slope down to Tagish Lake in the Yukon.

A hub of information on tropical diseases and their treatments.

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

This temple is steeped in local folklore involving a teakettle and a raccoon dog.

One of the bloodiest and most important battles in Japanese history is recreated with kitschy concrete statues.

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

This little known mountain has claimed four times as many lives as Everest.

An eerie maze of industrial factories looks like something out of a dystopian sci-fi.

When this massive wooden temple ran out of rope, they made one out of devotees' hair.

Japan's largest collection of Western-style mansions in the port city of Kobe includes a recreation of Sherlock Holmes' 221B Baker Street quarters.

"The Dance of Fools" is Japan's largest dance festival.

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

A Japanese train station built around a 700-year-old camphor tree.

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

An anthropological theme park that depicts the cultures of around 20 different countries.

Shrine dedicated to boars that is believed to cure foot and leg injuries.

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

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

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

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

Unusual hexagonal rocks formed by cooling lava named for their resemblance to traditional Japanese tatami mats.

450 dead and frozen fish, proudly on display in Japan.

Modern Japanese museum is buried by snow annually.