Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

The world's longest tunnel with an undersea section.

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

Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.

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

Inside the columbarium, thousands of colorful, high-tech Buddhas guard the ashes of the dead.

This water goblin statue represents a 19th-century urban legend about a haunted canal that became a Japanese idiom.

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

After being lost for decades, this striking mural depicting the atomic bomb covers the wall of a busy Tokyo metro station.

A shrine dedicated to a 10th-century samurai emperor, whose head is not buried on site (contrary to popular belief).

People from around the world visit the shrine of Japan’s legendarily loyal dog.

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

A cool dive bar, off the beaten track.

A site where ten to twenty thousand Edo-era prisoners were put to death.

A 17th-century Shinto shrine that is home to statues of Mickey Mouse and Pikachu.

This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

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

This bar is filled with Star Wars merchandise from around the world, all of it unlicensed knockoffs.

A moss-covered statue of a Japanese Buddhist deity stands at a quiet temple in downtown Osaka.

The divine septet of Japanese fortune gods are rendered in 1,000 year old wood at this peaceful site.

Its collection distills more than 60 years of pop culture in Japan, from Godzilla to Hulk Hogan.

Old neon signs from the City of Brotherly Love provide a snapshot of the city’s evolution.

South Philadelphia is home to Keith Haring's only surviving in situ collaborative public mural.

One artist's love letter to his city and its citizens plays out across dozens of bright murals painted on the sides of decrepit buildings.