This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

Every color in the rainbow awaits.

An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.

This pair of small sea rocks has been "wed" using rope and ancient Shinto tradition.

This sawtooth mountain range still bears the strangely lovely marks of its history as a medieval quarry.

White beach sands made of the remains of tiny, star shaped creatures.

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

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

With over 12,000 different species of plants, this botanical garden is Japan's oldest and most diverse.

Japanese national treasure originally built in 593 CE.

Japanese island famous for poison gas and fluffy bunnies.

Open-air museum with an elaborate sculpture garden, stretching for over 70,000 square-meters.

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

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

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

A popular European tradition makes its way to the states on one of America's most famous bridges.

One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.