Roots and stumps that lay inundated for two millennia are on display in Japan's city of three mysteries.

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

This seven story Japanese love hotel now stands in ruins.

A strange tribute to all the fallen souls of war.

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

The largest of the Fuji Five Lakes is home to an impressive swan population—some real, some with paddles, and one with an observation deck.

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

Thirty architectural gems from the 19th- and early 20th-century Tokyo were restored and relocated to this space.

Modern Japanese museum is buried by snow annually.

Burial mound for the ears and noses of thousands of mutilated Korean soldiers.

A Japanese shrine to dolls.

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

A sculpture that resurrected the only tree standing following the devastating 2011 tsunami.

A giant robo-cockroach building devours Tokyo.

A 59-ft. robot statue looks over the citizens of earthquake-ravaged Kobe.

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

This little replica of Lady Liberty provides a bit of NYC in a Japanese city.

Elaborate series of tunnels where traces of mass suicide are still visible.

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

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

The 43-mile route crosses through six islands with gorgeous views of the Seto Inland Sea.

The divine septet of Japanese fortune gods are rendered in 1,000 year old wood at this peaceful site.

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

Children's literature inside, forest all around.