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Once upon a time in Kamakura, a five-headed dragon fell in love with an Indian water goddess.

A giant statue of the Buddhist goddess of mercy watches over the town of Ōfuna.

A network of ancient tunnels and vaulted chambers with mystical Buddhist reliefs, built for ascetic training.

Access to this hidden site of a 14th-century mass suicide is prohibited, unless it is to pray for the dead.

This airy five-floor library and museum houses thousands of books and rotating exhibits on Japanese monsters and anime.

This massive, beautifully-lit underground quarry leaves visitors in awe.

This western-themed amusement park is host to a large number of decaying animatronic cowboys.

A miniature shrine in the busy corner of Tokyo's historic Broadway, honoring a sextet of unusual entertainment gods.

Birthplace of the Tendai sect and home to the marathon monks.

Go through the looking glass in Tokyo's Wonderland-themed shop.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

Only recently added to the shrine, this googly-eyed snail demon of unknown origin is said to have eye-healing powers.

A bizarre philosophy-themed park founded by an occult expert.

This one-of-a-kind indie publisher-bookshop specializes in archiving historic red-light districts and niche cultural topics of the Shōwa era.

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States and an abandoned gold mine and ghost town all in one place!

One of the best-preserved early 20th-century ore-processing mills in Nevada is maintained in a state of arrested decay.

A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.

This central Nevada cave is the spiritual home of ancient and enigmatic pictographs.

A large, remote national monument highlights the typical geologic structure seen in Nevada.

One of the best places to dig—some say on the planet—for six different types of chalcedony.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.