The Natural History Museum that time forgot.

A Japanese train station built around a 700-year-old camphor tree.

Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.

Japanese island famous for poison gas and fluffy bunnies.

A Japanese corporation has turned this small island town into living modern art gallery.

Hidden by the roadside in the Iya Valley, this gem brings together folk monsters and the region's unique geography.

A calico cat named Tama was the wildly popular Super Station Master at this train stop in southeast Japan.

A 59-ft. robot statue looks over the citizens of earthquake-ravaged Kobe.

A museum run by retired highway engineers who helped rebuild after the Great Hanshin Earthquake.

An abandoned giant glass dome sits in the bay in “the Venice of the East.”

A strange tribute to all the fallen souls of war.

This garden located inside a bamboo forest once belonged to a famous Japanese actor.

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

A train ride to the middle of nowhere gives its passengers some of the most iconic views of Japan's seasons.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

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

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

Have a soak at this retro bathhouse, where you will find Japan's first electric bath, tiling from Spain, and wood carvings representing the Japanese invasion of Manchuria.

The cutest shrine in Kyoto is dedicated to bunnies.

Established over a thousand years ago, this family-run teahouse continues to serve skewers of sweet rice cake to this day.

A thick blanket of beautiful pampas grass cloaks this unique Japanese landscape.

Be a ninja - or just act like one.

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

These Japanese gardens are blankets of light for dark winter nights.