An infamous house made famous by director Takashi Shimizu.

Cherry blossom season comes early in this Japanese town where pink flowers line the streets and riverbanks.

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

This mesmerizingly colorful pond looks like a scene straight out of a fairytale.

A Japanese cat island also populated by the descendants of a band of banished samurai.

Crawl through the hole in the middle of this stone to break off a bad relationship or initiate a good one.

This mountain's identity is stuck somewhere between a nightmare and a scenic tourist attraction.

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

A sculpture that resurrected the only tree standing following the devastating 2011 tsunami.

This giant bronze Buddha, the third largest in Japan, is the last in an ill-fated series of statues.

Founded over a thousand years ago, this shrine is said to be built on the site of a warlord's harem prison.

A 59-ft. robot statue looks over the citizens of earthquake-ravaged Kobe.

Elaborate series of tunnels where traces of mass suicide are still visible.

Burial mound for the ears and noses of thousands of mutilated Korean soldiers.

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

Sulphuric gases inhabit a beautiful Japanese island.

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

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

These Japanese gardens are blankets of light for dark winter nights.

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

This active volcano's siren song to suicide jumpers forced authorities to build a fence.

An astounding annual light display honors the victims of one of Japan's most devastating earthquakes.

A remarkable lava formation encloses a line of Buddhist statues that can't be accurately counted, according to local mythology.

The largest volcanic caldera in Japan holds an entire city in its maw.