Japanese national treasure originally built in 593 CE.

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

A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.

The quintessential Japanese rock garden has existed for more than 500 years.

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

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

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

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.

The cemetery houses the remains of Jun’ichirō Tanizaki, one of Japan's most famous novelists.

An ingenious solution to a tricky engineering problem, this spiraling bridge takes drivers for a dizzying spin.

This lovely hilltop tower was specifically built to withstand 100 MPH winds.

Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.

A former copper mine which became a truly unsuccessful prison.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.