Become a prohibition rebel.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

A 70-foot-deep ice cave formed by lava from Mt. Fuji on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest." 

The self-mummified monks of Japan.

A massive cave complex boasts some of the clearest water (and most charming bats) in the world.

Unusual hexagonal rocks formed by cooling lava named for their resemblance to traditional Japanese tatami mats.

A steaming, boiling hellscape sources Hokkaido's thermal baths.

Closed for decades, this strange symbol of Japan's Expo '70 has finally opened its psychedelic insides to the public.

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

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

This volcanic island in the Pacific just keeps growing and growing.

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

This beautiful Japanese garden is a memorial to the samurai who literally wrote the book on business as martial art.

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

Sulphuric gases inhabit a beautiful Japanese island.

The divine septet of Japanese fortune gods are rendered in 1,000 year old wood at this peaceful site.