Natural rock formations resembling monks in hats inspire folk legends.

One man and his wife have turned a barren Korean island into a fantastical botanical wonderland.

The 400-year-old remains of the samurai invasion of Korea.

This odd museum/art gallery embraces the physiological, zoological, and ethnographic side of sex.

Numerical symbolism abound at East Asia's oldest observatory.

120 mortarless pagodas built by one Korean hermit.

Over 80,000 carved wood blocks make up one of the world's oldest intact Buddhist canons.

Various forms of phallic art decorate this hill in commemoration of legendary local tragedy.

The world's first cruise ship-shaped hotel is perched atop a cliff.

The site of many tense prisoner exchanges across the Military Demarcation Line between North and South Korea.

A monument to the two U.S. officers killed by North Korean troops while trying to trim a poplar tree.

The best place for scenic views of the DMZ and North Korea.

A large visitor's complex and place of remembrance on the outskirts of the DMZ.

Buy your fish and have it cooked to order in this bustling, eight-floor seafood market.

A chilling monument to Korean patriots who resisted the Japanese occupation.

Home to more than 13,000 pieces of war memorabilia and military equipment.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

A new sculpture calls attention to climate change in the centuries-old city it threatens.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

Castle and secret tunnel withstood a siege until its owner was killed by the Holy Roman Empire, while sitting on the toilet.

The monument honors the mountaineers who were part of Europe’s best anti-Nazi forces.

A trough of 700 strange bronze faces runs through a narrow alley in Ljubljana's old town.

A whimsical bridge adorned with decorative dragons.