The ruin of a Japanese love hotel almost completely overgrown with brambles.

Go through the looking glass in Tokyo's Wonderland-themed shop.

Shells collected from over a hundred different countries line the walls, floors and ceilings of this fantasy museum.

A tiny cafe that recreates the Japanese elementary school lunch experience.

The ruins of Japan’s premier water brothel.

A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.

A Buddhist temple to honor insects that died for science.

Drinkslinger is an unlikely vocation for a Buddhist monk, but at this Tokyo bar the enlightenment is served in a martini glass.

Japanese company creates clone dolls that reside in the "uncanny valley."

Japan's corrupt-mental-institution themed restaurant offers diners a chance to eat inside of filthy cells.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

The magical, mossy forest that inspired Princess Mononoke.

A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.

Japanese island famous for poison gas and fluffy bunnies.

The oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years, even catering to samurai.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

Fine dining in the bizarre world of Lewis Carroll.

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

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

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.