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

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

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

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

An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.

A displaced shrine that was put back after a string of bad luck.

Nine Gardens in one—with tea service.

Surreal giant face-pillars welcome visitors from across the globe to this hotel.

A 14th-century European chapel sticks out of the facade of a Japanese hotel.

More than 300 years old, Kyoto's historic "teahouse" still operates as an invitation-only geisha club.

The groundbreaking Japanese shrine maiden who invented the art of kabuki.

A small shrine dedicated to a tanuki statue, tucked away in a Blade Runner-esque izakaya alley

View Japan's most historic city from a cyberpunk walkway suspended 150 feet above the ground.

When this massive wooden temple ran out of rope, they made one out of devotees' hair.

Shrine dedicated to boars that is believed to cure foot and leg injuries.

A 1000-year-old shrine in Kyoto with a poorly planned sacred arch.

Burial mound for the ears and noses of thousands of mutilated Korean soldiers.

Open since 1690, this former teahouse makes “strength mochi” based on the centuries-old recipe.

A bizarre philosophy-themed park founded by an occult expert.

A replica of the boarding house where many pioneering mangaka lived in the 1950s and ’60s.

The largest preserved walking dragline excavator in Western Europe.

An art museum dedicated to the sculptor Barbara Hepworth, but it is by no means restricted to her work.

Though much of the castle was robbed of its stones, the underlying earthworks are among the best-preserved in England.

Built as a training camp, this site became a detainment center for prisoners of war and German civilians during World War I.