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

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

Unlikely place for krautrock legends to hang out.

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

An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

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

Oddly touching memorial to a little-remembered nuclear tragedy.

The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.

Japanese island famous for poison gas and fluffy bunnies.

Japanese national treasure originally built in 593 CE.

Steaming blood-red hot spring from hell.

The largest volcanic caldera in Japan holds an entire city in its maw.

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

This derelict superstructure was a very important warning system for the Soviet military.

This attraction was abandoned after the Chernobyl disaster.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

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

The largest whale museum in Europe allows visitors to walk among life-size giants.

There is only one place in the world where the corners of four nations come together.

One of the most horrible legacies of the Cold War is a site where the Soviet Union tested nuclear bombs on civilians.

Siberian ghost town built by gulag prisoners.

The world's longest outdoor escalator takes visitors to the top of China's largest dam and is also shaped like a dragon.

Unusual, mushroom-like rock formations caused by weathering and water erosion, set to disappear, according to geologists.