This beautiful defunct water tower adds a European flair to a traditional Japanese neighborhood.

A park built around the legend of a clam-loving giant who created a monumental midden.

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

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

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

The Hanshin Expressway goes right through its 5th, 6th, and 7th floors.

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

A 70-foot-deep ice cave formed by lava from Mt. Fuji on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest." 

After being lost for decades, this striking mural depicting the atomic bomb covers the wall of a busy Tokyo metro station.

This isolated Japanese mountain village untouched by time showcases unique and stunning traditional architecture.

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

The Buddhist temples of Yamadera, built into a mountain side, feature a viewing deck with sweeping views.

One of the tallest statues in the world, and the tallest statue of a goddess in Japan.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

This sawtooth mountain range still bears the strangely lovely marks of its history as a medieval quarry.

Abandoned blockhouses from Nazi Germany's Atlantic Wall erode into the sea on a French beach.

Some of the smallest works of art in existence.

The third-tallest statue in the world depicts the "Buddha of Infinite Light," complete with observation deck in his chest.

A remarkable lava formation encloses a line of Buddhist statues that can't be accurately counted, according to local mythology.

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

For hundreds of years, participants in this Japanese festival have been making babies cry to ward off demons.

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

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

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.