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

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

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

An all-female order shares an ancient culinary art with visitors at their mountaintop monastery.

This former coal mine has been turned into a sprawling modern art complex.

A remnant of Korea's colonial past lies forgotten in a hip neighborhood in Seoul.

One man's lifetime collection of tiny objects of wisdom gathered from around the world, on display for public enjoyment.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

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

To enter the lower hall of this temple, you must first walk through a dragon.

About as hidden as can be, this specialty coffee shop is wedged between multi-story buildings at the end of a dark, skinny alleyway in Seoul.

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

This quirky Korean eatery is built to resemble an equally quirky vintage camera.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

A theme park made of glass, from the gleaming books on the shelves to the crystal fish in the mirror lake.

South Korea's only sex-themed park.

A 32-acre fun park dedicated to all things cheese.

Secret North Korean passage discovered below the world's most dangerous border.

Step into a cartoon at this Seoul café that aims to evoke a two-dimensional scene.

South Korea's love of the silly photograph is on full display at this goofy collection of trompe l'oeil paintings.