Places Edited by monacensia

Watch out for the two-story Godzilla made out of tires.

Japan's largest collection of Western-style mansions in the port city of Kobe includes a recreation of Sherlock Holmes' 221B Baker Street quarters.

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

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

More tin toys than you can shake a clapping monkey at.

One of the largest producers of MSG in the world welcomes visitors to its Kawasaki factory with an albino panda named Aji-Kun.

An eerie maze of industrial factories looks like something out of a dystopian sci-fi.

A rare festival blending religion, blacksmiths, vagina dentata, sex workers, and the straight-up facts of life.

A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.

We heard you like volcanoes so we put a volcano in your volcano so you can die for sure...

The largest volcanic caldera in Japan holds an entire city in its maw.

The largest collection of model trains in the world is actually run using full-size locomotive technology.

A 59-ft. robot statue looks over the citizens of earthquake-ravaged Kobe.

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

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

One of the world's largest ancient burial mounds.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

This seven story Japanese love hotel now stands in ruins.

A small but immensely extravagant palace built by the "Night King."