Japan's largest collection of Western-style mansions in the port city of Kobe includes a recreation of Sherlock Holmes' 221B Baker Street quarters.

A collection of more than 1,000 teddies from nearly any profession.

A hub of information on tropical diseases and their treatments.

This little town supplies Japan with most of its calligraphy brushes, still made by hand from animal fur.

This traditional Japanese-style house doubles as one of James Turrell's colorful works of art.

When this massive wooden temple ran out of rope, they made one out of devotees' hair.

What's believed to be the country's first shrine is, in Shintō mythology, the annual meeting place of the gods.

One of the tallest statues in the world, and the tallest statue of a goddess in Japan.

The statue's head is one of the few fragments of the original Urakami Cathedral to survive the atomic bomb.

Colloquially known as “piss alley,” this narrow street filled with tiny bars and barbecue stands looks like it was pulled straight out of “Blade Runner.”

One of the bloodiest and most important battles in Japanese history is recreated with kitschy concrete statues.

These seven moai figures are the world's only sanctioned replicas of the Easter Island originals.

Rows of stone statues are dressed up to mourn children that are lost before birth.

A giant rooftop ride with unbeatable views of Matsuyama city, the nearby mountain ranges, and the Inland Sea.

A park built around the legend of a clam-loving giant who created a monumental midden.

This whimsical garbage disposal facility receives around 12,000 accidental tourists each year.

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

Along the side of the road on a small Japanese island is an extensive garden of uniquely designed Shisa statues.

Fans line up at the crack of dawn for a slurpy bowl of deliciousness at this noodle counter inside a factory.

A railway station takeout shop sells boxed meals in containers shaped like trains and snowmen that hold the country’s abundant regional delicacies.

This incredible mountainside temple is home to intriguing statues of demon-like creatures.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

Colloquially known as "the lynching memorial," this is the United States' first memorial to the victims of racial terror at home.

The whimsical construction on the roof has given rise to many a Montgomery myth about its contents.