Along with The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, the Aokigahara Forest in Japan is among the world's most popular sites — to die. <br /> <br />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. <br /> <br />Since then, hundreds have jumped on the creepy bandwagon to stay among the trees for an eternity. <br /> <br />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.
