The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.

After being lost for decades, this striking mural depicting the atomic bomb covers the wall of a busy Tokyo metro station.

This adorable birdlike police box is designed based on a play on words.

A 14th-century European chapel sticks out of the facade of a Japanese hotel.

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

Watch out for the two-story Godzilla made out of tires.

The small candy-colored ride is the last rooftop Ferris wheel in Tokyo.

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

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 tiny collection of traditional Japanese woodblock prints, open only when the owner feels like it.

Shrine dedicated to boars that is believed to cure foot and leg injuries.

Make your own fake treats at this factory and workshop in the epicenter of Japan's food replica industry.

450 dead and frozen fish, proudly on display in Japan.

Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

Crawl through the hole in the middle of this stone to break off a bad relationship or initiate a good one.

A giant robo-cockroach building devours Tokyo.

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

Burial mound for the ears and noses of thousands of mutilated Korean soldiers.

The bartenders at this crime-fighting theme cafe are actual private detectives by day.

With over 12,000 different species of plants, this botanical garden is Japan's oldest and most diverse.

Giant sand sculptures of famous people and places are on display near the Tottori sand dunes.

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