Bioluminescent firefly squid light up this Japanese fishing port.

The magical, mossy forest that inspired 'Princess Mononoke.'

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

The oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years, even catering to samurai.

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

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

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

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

It may be a "Smoke Free Ontario" today, but at this museum you can still get a whiff of yesterday’s Golden Age of tobacco farming.

Among the cliffs of the Elora Gorge is an oft-overlooked piece of celebratory graffiti.

A small Canadian town founded as a refuge for Loyalists following American Independence.

Canada's first pet cemetery is now abandoned.

A fake block of cheese remembers a feat of dairy engineering from the Chicago World's Fair.

The world's only bushplane museum captures the spirit of the early planes and pilots and their contributions to northern life in Canada.

Outsider art meets hard scrabble mountain life in this woodcarver's home/art piece.

The racehorse's headstone highlights a forgotten part of the Hendrie Park Gardens' history.

Extremely long cable tunnel buried under the river.

The only museum about the history of dentistry in Canada.

Abandoned for over a century, this chilling train tunnel is now a destination for ghost hunters.

Named in tribute to Canadian singer and songwriter Neil Young.

For a brief moment, the world was given a flicker of the future of fast food, thanks to a visionary inventor.

Two thirds of this Montreal neon icon has survived to flash another day.