The bartenders at this crime-fighting theme cafe are actual private detectives by day.

We heard you like volcanoes so we put a volcano in your volcano so you can die for sure...

Museum showcases Japanese sexuality and some amazing ocean views.

Enormous underground chamber built to detect 'ghost particles' of the universe.

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

A Buddhist temple to honor insects that died for science.

Drinkslinger is an unlikely vocation for a Buddhist monk, but at this Tokyo bar the enlightenment is served in a martini glass.

Steaming blood-red hot spring from hell.

A bronze statue dating back as far as 1252, still has remnants of gold on its right cheek from ancient gilding.

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

Reportedly 1,400 years old, this may be the first of the Fiji Mermaids.

Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.

A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.

The self-mummified monks of Japan.

Go through the looking glass in Tokyo's Wonderland-themed shop.

An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.

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

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

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

After a profound show of devotion for his master, a dog becomes the symbol of loyalty for an entire nation.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

Japanese island famous for poison gas and fluffy bunnies.

Every color in the rainbow awaits.