This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

"I did this all while you were watching TV."

A cave's rare beauty held a cavernous secret hidden underground.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

The demolished ruins of a poorly located Japanese Love Hotel.

Unlikely place for krautrock legends to hang out.

Haunted house kitsch meets Japanese folklore at this theme bar where patrons can “die” and have their own mock funeral.

A Catholicism-themed restaurant where sacrilege is on the menu.

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

A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.

When this clock strikes a certain time, puppets showcase a story of life in Edo Japan.

Japan's iconic sci-fi hero rendered to 8-bit by notorious French street artist Invader.

Kawaii meets poisonous at this unique art gallery.

Weighing nearly 7 tons, this massive sculpture was carved out of 500-year-old wood and decorated with thousands of jewels.

Discover the past, present, and future of packaging in this unique Japanese museum.

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

The bartenders at this crime-fighting theme cafe are actual private detectives by day.

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

A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.

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

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.