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

This temple is steeped in local folklore involving a teakettle and a raccoon dog.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

Thirty architectural gems from the 19th- and early 20th-century Tokyo were restored and relocated to this space.

These Japanese ruins have been brought back to life with elaborately recreated buildings.

Founded over a thousand years ago, this shrine is said to be built on the site of a warlord's harem prison.

Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.

Legend holds eating just one of these black eggs can add seven years to one's life.

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

Steaming blood-red hot spring from hell.

1,001 carved statues of the Buddhist God of Mercy, each with a unique face.

This Japanese national treasure was originally built in 593.

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

If Hello Kitty were Mickey Mouse, this would be Disneyland.

The world's largest drain sits below the city of Kasukabe, Japan.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

This historical theme park celebrates all things noodle.

Open-air museum with an elaborate sculpture garden, stretching for over 70,000 square-meters.

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

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

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