This high-design church is made up of two dizzying spirals meant to evoke the weaving together of marriage.

Modern Japanese museum is buried by snow annually.

An infamous house made famous by director Takashi Shimizu.

The world's shortest escalator doesn't seem to have any reason to exist other than to hold a world record.

A statue erected on an infamous cliff where young boys would hold dangerous "pee offs" to prove their mettle.

This bridge is so steep it looks like a rollercoaster.

This giant bronze Buddha, the third largest in Japan, is the last in an ill-fated series of statues.

Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

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

Transport yourself to the 1980s era of video games at this themed restaurant and bar.

The third-tallest statue in the world depicts the "Buddha of Infinite Light," complete with observation deck in his chest.

This mountain's identity is stuck somewhere between a nightmare and a scenic tourist attraction.

Elaborate series of tunnels where traces of mass suicide are still visible.

Coast along one of Japan’s mountain railways for coveted views of magnificent hydrangeas.

A giant robo-cockroach building devours Tokyo.

A massive wintry wall of snow up to 66 feet tall flanks a highway through Japan's mountains.

The ruin of a Japanese love hotel almost completely overgrown with brambles.

Founded over a thousand years ago, this shrine is said to be built on the site of a warlord's harem prison.

Burial mound for the ears and noses of thousands of mutilated Korean soldiers.

This town near Nagasaki is flecked with fruit-flavored bus stops.

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

The ruins of Japan’s premier water brothel.

A tiny collection of traditional Japanese woodblock prints, open only when the owner feels like it.

Crawl through the hole in the middle of this stone to break off a bad relationship or initiate a good one.