A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.

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

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

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

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

A Buddhist temple to honor insects that died for science.

Oddly touching memorial to a little-remembered nuclear tragedy.

A giant robo-cockroach building devours Tokyo.

This little replica of Lady Liberty provides a bit of NYC in a Japanese city.

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

Where the sleeping monsters of Scotland's oil industry are left to rust.