A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

The demolished ruins of a poorly located Japanese Love Hotel.

For hundreds of years, participants in this Japanese festival have been making babies cry to ward off demons.

Meet the world's longest tapeworm in a collection that really gets under your skin.

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

Underground farm located in a former bank vault deep within the bowels of Tokyo's business district.

This incredible mountainside temple is home to intriguing statues of demon-like creatures.

Huts like this were once a hub for the female divers who collected pearls and seafood off Japan's coasts.

A giant rooftop ride with unbeatable views of Matsuyama city, the nearby mountain ranges, and the Inland Sea.

A park built around the legend of a clam-loving giant who created a monumental midden.

Disaster prevention apartment blocks in Sumida Ward are designed to save as many as possible in the face of the inevitable.

A museum in Hokkaido is housed in a former high school. On its grounds a marker shares the awakening of a man who longs to be reunited with his soulmate in the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere.

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

The world's largest radiation field is probably our best bet for irradiated vegetable superheroes.

Legend says the goddess this shrine honors curses any couples that pass by.

The statue's head is one of the few fragments of the original Urakami Cathedral to survive the atomic bomb.

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

A collection of the specialized tools used to construct Japan’s beautiful architecture.

Haunted house kitsch meets Japanese folklore at this theme bar where patrons can “die” and have their own mock funeral.

Stone slabs along the coast warn of Japan's tsunami-ravaged past, often marking the highest point of a wave's reach.

This traditional Japanese-style house doubles as one of James Turrell's colorful works of art.

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

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