An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

A museum dedicated to the least secret spy is actually an attempt to get Hollywood's attention.

Disaster prevention apartment blocks in Sumida Ward are designed to save as many as possible in the face of the inevitable.

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

A bovine sumo match in which both bulls live to fight another day.

The statue's head is one of the few fragments of the original Urakami Cathedral to survive the atomic bomb.

This enormous "shamoji" means more to the people of Miyajima than just a way getting rice onto a plate.

Near the mouth of the Yodo River, this museum offers visitors six floors of hands-on learning about Osaka's raw sewage.

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

"Excuse me sir, your submarine is blocking my building."

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

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

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

This little known mountain has claimed four times as many lives as Everest.

"The Dance of Fools" is Japan's largest dance festival.

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

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

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

Giant animal sculptures are created with the rice straw leftover from the fall harvest each year.

A derelict New Zealand-themed amusement park in Japan.

One of the largest producers of MSG in the world welcomes visitors to its Kawasaki factory with an albino panda named Aji-Kun.

For hundreds of years, participants in this Japanese festival have been making babies cry to ward off demons.

The Yonaguni Monument, a natural formation or the Japanese Atlantis?

A small Japanese village claims to be the final resting place of the son of God (and God's other son's ear).