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This little town supplies Japan with most of its calligraphy brushes, still made by hand from animal fur.

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

Every color in the rainbow awaits.

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

Constructed thousands of years ago, these stone circles offer incredible insight into the lives of the people who built them.

A semi-abandoned replica of Prince Edward Island's Avonlea—in Japan.

This town near Nagasaki is flecked with fruit-flavored bus stops.

A steaming, boiling hellscape sources Hokkaido's thermal baths.

Okinawan dining in a twenty foot tall, man-made tree house overlooking Naha Harbor.

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

The self-mummified monks of Japan.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

Enormous underground chamber built to detect 'ghost particles' of the universe.

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

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

Hanging over one of Japan’s “hidden valleys,” these vine bridges must be remade every three years.

Bioluminescent firefly squid light up this Japanese fishing port.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

Hundreds of drawings left by the land's previous inhabitants remain mysterious.

An arsenic-filled pool in the Grand Canyon takes on the appearance of a giant, overflowing pumpkin.

Despite being one of the most photographed vistas in the Rockies these twin peaks are rightfully known as the "Deadly Bells."

Stenciled handprints and wall paintings dating back 10,000 years, some of the earliest forms of cave art.

Sweet or salty, super hot or mixed into beer, this is the holy land for all things licorice.