"The Dance of Fools" is Japan's largest dance festival.

The traditional houses along the coast of this charming Japanese fishing village allow people to sleep above the sea.

Modern Japanese museum is buried by snow annually.

This high-design church is made up of two dizzying spirals meant to evoke the weaving together of marriage.

A statue erected on an infamous cliff where young boys would hold dangerous "pee offs" to prove their mettle.

The world's shortest escalator doesn't seem to have any reason to exist other than to hold a world record.

Unusual hexagonal rocks formed by cooling lava named for their resemblance to traditional Japanese tatami mats.

The world's largest drain sits below the city of Kasukabe, Japan.

One of the first hotel rooms in a pod.

Starship-temple contains 400 tons of drinking water and offers free Japanese lessons.

Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.

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

Steaming blood-red hot spring from hell.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

Bioluminescent firefly squid light up this Japanese fishing port.

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

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

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

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

A disused quarry turned lake in the middle of a residential district.

The busy transport hub is home to the tallest airport slide in the world.

The highest pedestrian bridge in Singapore looks like a series of undulating waves rising between two public parks.

This rare wildlife haven in Singapore feels like you're in the tropical rainforest.

Once the path of a railway tunnel, now home to thousands of glowing insects.