Along with The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, the Aokigahara Forest in Japan is among the world's most popular sites — to die.
The dense forest, located at the base of Mt. Fuji, became a destination for suicides after the 1960 publication of Kuroi Jukai — a popular novel in which lovers take their own lives in Aokigahara.
Since then, hundreds have jumped on the creepy bandwagon to stay among the trees for an eternity.
According to the Vice documentary, it is not rare to encounter a body since authorities only do a sweep of the forest once a year. In fact, there are so many deaths that the Yakuza (the Japanese mafia) pays homeless people to sneak in to rob the corpses.
