A Japanese shrine to dolls.

A thick blanket of beautiful pampas grass cloaks this unique Japanese landscape.

A quaint amusement park now sits, rusting and forgotten among the foliage.

A strange tribute to all the fallen souls of war.

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

A train ride to the middle of nowhere gives its passengers some of the most iconic views of Japan's seasons.

"Bug Bug" Land, a natural park for beetle watching, still hasn't fully recovered from Fukushima's nuclear disaster.

Modern Japanese museum is buried by snow annually.

Nestled in an unassuming residential area, this "forbidden forest" is rumored to spirit away those who dare to enter.

Roots and stumps that lay inundated for two millennia are on display in Japan's city of three mysteries.

The cutest shrine in Kyoto is dedicated to bunnies.

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

An eerie maze of industrial factories looks like something out of a dystopian sci-fi.

A flight of this "ghost staircase" has 40 steps on the way up, but only 39 steps on the way down.

A mysterious set of tunnels carved in the hills of rural northern Kyushu.

A giant robo-cockroach building devours Tokyo.

The largest of the Fuji Five Lakes is home to an impressive swan population—some real, some with paddles, and one with an observation deck.

This “peasant café” in the middle of Tokyo re-creates the atmosphere of the Japanese countryside.

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

As the aging humans of this Japanese village die off one local artisan is replacing them with eerie homonculi.

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

Each year this Japanese temple overflows with scowling, bearded good luck talismans.

A museum dedicated to the history of Tokyo's often-overlooked working-class district.

Children's literature inside, forest all around.