We heard you like volcanoes so we put a volcano in your volcano so you can die for sure...

A tiny cafe that recreates the Japanese elementary school lunch experience.

Serving you alcohol with a side of insanity. Also, costumes!

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

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

An abandoned giant glass dome sits in the bay in “the Venice of the East.”

The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.

This spa theme park lets its guests take a dip in pools of coffee, wine, or ramen broth.

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

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

A 70-foot-deep ice cave formed by lava from Mt. Fuji on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest." 

An anthropological theme park that depicts the cultures of around 20 different countries.

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

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

Every color in the rainbow awaits.

A long-vacant Scottish Rite temple in Hollywood has been converted into an art museum filled with Masonic relics.

The site of murders and Satanic cult gatherings.

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

Giant scissors seemingly stabbed into the side of a hair salon leave no question about the vocation of the owners.

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

Iconic Los Angeles residence famous for its 19 statues of Michelangelo's David.

The remains of the first punk club in L.A.

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

Church and home-museum of a 1920s female revivalist preacher with a very sordid past.