The freshest fish here are the ones you catch yourself.

This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

Every color in the rainbow awaits.

1,001 carved statues of the Buddhist God of Mercy, each with a unique face.

The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.

If Hello Kitty were Mickey Mouse, this would be Disneyland.

The magical, mossy forest that inspired Princess Mononoke.

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.

Giant animal sculptures are created with the rice straw leftover from the fall harvest each year.

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

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

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

Take black faced bears with giant clubs, white faced barbers wielding axes, hunters armed with shotguns, and mix in a lot of drinking.

In this coastal town, the time-honored tradition of reenacting the struggle between the Christians and Moors includes the arrival of the Moorish fleet.

For divers and music lovers, the Florida Keys' Underwater Music Festival provides the best of both worlds.

Two churches shoot bottle rockets at each others' bell towers in an unusual Easter celebration.

Japan's corrupt-mental-institution themed restaurant offers diners a chance to eat inside of filthy cells.

This tiny museum hidden above a restaurant houses thousands of modern and traditional kites.

An unexpected curiosity cabinet hidden within a department store in the Japan Post tower.

Oddly touching memorial to a little-remembered nuclear tragedy.

An imposing Omani fortress surrounded by date palm trees.

Whitewashed mosque contains the world's largest carpet.