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Local lore says this 700-year-old tree has sacred and medicinal properties.

This was once the largest city in Kazakhstan, and a major stop on the Silk Road.

These wondrously illuminated caverns extend under the mountains of the Fukushima Prefecture.

The site where the famous city gate once stood, now in the middle of a playground.

Believed to hold the remains of Japan's most infamous fox spirit, this stone is said to kill those who dare approach.

The cutest shrine in Kyoto is dedicated to bunnies.

This quirky collection of furniture also happens to be a public art installation.

The site of Japan's first major environmental disaster.

Remnants of an old bank adorn this station's brick wall.

A site where ten to twenty thousand Edo-era prisoners were put to death.

A unique Shinto shrine filled with bunnies and wordplay.

See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.

This village is home to the largest existing settlement of the Ainu, the Indigenous people of Japan.

A train station decorated by a giant replica of the ancient Shakōki-dogū figurine found in the area.

Is this cat asleep or just pretending?

The largest privately owned statue of Buddha in Japan, built by a total amateur, with an unconventional look.

This infamous execution site inspired the beginning of Japan's modernization in the late 18th-century.

One in a pair of subterranean caves created by an ancient eruption of Mount Fuji.

According to one legend, this bridge was crafted after monkeys formed a body-bridge across the gorge.

An eerie reminder to the horrors of World War II.

The only Buddhist temple in Japan dedicated to breasts.

The site where the poet Matsuo Bashō read one of the first haiku that comprise his famous travelogue.

You can still find treasures on the pebbly beaches of one of the world's oldest jade-producing areas.

A shrine dedicated to the sacred white snakes of Iwakuni, whose albinism has been passed down for generations.