Next door to Tokyo DisneySea is a giant sculpture created by Taro Okamoto symbolizing the dynamism of life.

Rows of stone statues are dressed up to mourn children that are lost before birth.

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

Steampunk, humanoid sculptures crawl on all fours in a Tokyo plaza.

An enormous pair of straw sandals woven in the traditional way—to keep demons at bay.

This bizarre residential building is the masterpiece of Von Jour Caux, the “Gaudí of Japan.”

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

Inside the columbarium, thousands of colorful, high-tech Buddhas guard the ashes of the dead.

Weighing nearly 7 tons, this massive sculpture was carved out of 500-year-old wood and decorated with thousands of jewels.

The infamous 'Incident at Honnō-ji' brought an end to Oda Nobunaga’s attempt to unify a warring Japan.

The cutest shrine in Kyoto is dedicated to bunnies.

This Kyoto Starbucks takes coffee drinkers back in time.

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

A massive, photogenic gate designed after a traditional hand drum used in the regional noh

Although it has never been a secret ninja base, this shrine still has plenty of tricks up its sleeve.

Japan’s oldest clock tower has been called one of the country’s most disappointing attractions.

An open-air museum exhibiting a total of 52 century-old buildings, recreating Hokkaido’s “pioneer village.”

Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.

An empty bookshelf commemorates the books which were lost during the infamous event

A series of markers along one side of an Amsterdam canal memorialize the Jewish residents from the other side who died in the Holocaust.

A simple but powerful tribute to the 20 victims of the 1692 witch trials.

A museum dedicated exclusively to the lore and history of ouija boards.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.