Bioluminescent firefly squid light up this Japanese fishing port.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

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

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

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

The magical, mossy forest that inspired Princess Mononoke.

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

Colloquially known as “piss alley,” this narrow street filled with tiny bars and barbecue stands looks like it was pulled straight out of “Blade Runner.”

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

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

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

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

An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.

This funeral home had the honor, if that is the correct word, of hosting the funeral of the famous Sacco and Vanzetti.

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born.

An elaborate, hidden model train in the Needham Town Forest.

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

Run by a eugenics advocate, this aging institution conducted secret radiation experiments sponsored by Quaker Oats.

The amazing wonder cabinets of a very rich Austrian archbishop.

Terrifically morbid cemetary and site of famous Paracelsus' grave.

Each spring, a dreamlike carpet of bluebells overtakes the forest floor.