A beautiful bamboo trail tucked in this famous Japanese Shrine.

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

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

The oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years, even catering to samurai.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

If Hello Kitty were Mickey Mouse, this would be Disneyland.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

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

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

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

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

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

This mountain tram provides stunning views while hanging from a single, steel thread.

Now abandoned, this East Austin school for the disabled began as the "State Colony for the Feeble-minded."

A collection of 100 brains preserved in jars on the UT campus.

After 97 years of constant vigilance from the dome of the Texas State Capitol, the original Goddess of Liberty retired to a life of climate-controlled leisure.

A tower that pays homage to local sailors who perished under the waves.

The biggest drug trafficking passage between Mexico and the U.S.

One of the highest points in Bexar county offers birdseye views of San Antonio and a four-story stone tower.

The "world’s largest honky-tonk" also has its own indoor rodeo arena.

This family cemetery is a reminder of a smallpox outbreak in late-19th-century Texas.

Once called the Jersey Lilly, this former saloon was the domain of infamous Judge Roy Bean.