Stone slabs along the coast warn of Japan's tsunami-ravaged past, often marking the highest point of a wave's reach.

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

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

A 14th-century European chapel sticks out of the facade of a Japanese hotel.

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

Ruins and statues dot the landscape of this tiny island rich with royal history.

A statue of a mischievous raccoon towers over this city park.

The small candy-colored ride is the last rooftop Ferris wheel in Tokyo.

Constructed thousands of years ago, these stone circles offer incredible insight into the lives of the people who built them.

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

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

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

A dilapidated amusement park with a million-dollar view.

Turn around and stick your head between your legs for the best view of this tree-covered sandbar.

These Japanese ruins have been brought back to life with elaborately recreated buildings.

This temple is steeped in local folklore involving a teakettle and a raccoon dog.

Japan's first automaton went missing, only to be revived by the Osaka Science Museum.

This giant seated Bhudda of Healing dates to the 1780s.

Birthplace of the Tendai sect and home to the marathon monks.

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

This historic hydroelectric power plant in Japan has been preserved and is open to the public.

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

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

"Singing sands" and the world's largest hourglass reside near Japan's Kotogahama beach.