This stone gatehouse was once the entrance to a historic mountain resort, and it had a cameo in a cheesy cult horror movie.

One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.

Two mermen, eternally spitting into each other's mouths.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

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

Nine Gardens in one—with tea service.

Japan's largest collection of Western-style mansions in the port city of Kobe includes a recreation of Sherlock Holmes' 221B Baker Street quarters.

One of the world's largest ancient burial mounds.

Bioluminescent firefly squid light up this Japanese fishing port.

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

Thirty architectural gems from the 19th- and early 20th-century Tokyo were restored and relocated to this space.

This historical theme park celebrates all things noodle.

Japan's corrupt-mental-institution themed restaurant offers diners a chance to eat inside of filthy cells.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

Surprisingly aquamarine waters fill deep lakes formed at the end of the last ice age.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

You can still ride this 100-year-old work of art in Brooklyn's largest public park.

This historic park site contains the last remnants of a once bustling canal system.

An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.

This natural rock "church" might not be a proper chapel but that doesn't mean it's not beautiful.

Despite its name, this route in southern Utah offers a heavenly day trip.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

This giant Massachusetts sycamore is said to hold the dubious distinction of being the "widest tree East of the Mississippi!"