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

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

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

Near the mouth of the Yodo River, this museum offers visitors six floors of hands-on learning about Osaka's raw sewage.

This historic hydroelectric power plant in Japan has been preserved and is open to the public.

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

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

Bioluminescent firefly squid light up this Japanese fishing port.

This bridge is so steep it looks like a rollercoaster.

An infamous house made famous by director Takashi Shimizu.

The magical, mossy forest that inspired Princess Mononoke.

Every color in the rainbow awaits.

A steaming, boiling hellscape sources Hokkaido's thermal baths.

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

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

More tin toys than you can shake a clapping monkey at.

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

The world’s first hotel to be run by robots.

A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.

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

A 70-foot-deep ice cave formed by lava from Mt. Fuji on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest." 

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

Constructed thousands of years ago, these stone circles offer incredible insight into the lives of the people who built them.

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