This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.

The ruins of Vancouver's abandoned heritage railway.

At just six feet two inches deep, it is said by Guiness and Ripley to be the world’s narrowest freestanding office building.

This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.

A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.

At night, this glittering musical tunnel draws skaters and photographers.

Anyone can control this glittery light installation with just a phone call.

Home to the world's oldest wooden building.

The hometown of a beloved manga artist created a treasure hunt for his popular ghostly characters.

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

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

The world's longest tunnel with an undersea section.

What's believed to be the country's first shrine is, in Shintō mythology, the annual meeting place of the gods.

It's bad manners to eat and drink on the subways of Tokyo, unless the train is this bar. 

One of the tallest statues in the world, and the tallest statue of a goddess in Japan.

Turn around and stick your head between your legs for the best view of this tree-covered sandbar.

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

This ancient shrine has been rebuilt every 20 years since the eighth century.

Giant art made in Japanese rice fields.

Inside the columbarium, thousands of colorful, high-tech Buddhas guard the ashes of the dead.

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

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

A massive wintry wall of snow up to 66 feet tall flanks a highway through Japan's mountains.

A calico cat named Tama was the wildly popular Super Station Master at this train stop in southeast Japan.