The largest and oldest brick pagoda in Korea.

This school was constructed in memory of Korean Confucian scholar Yi Hwang.

Visiting this grotto is symbolic of a spiritual journey into Nirvana.

This grand temple complex from the Old Silla era of Korea is home to a stone pagoda that was build in the 7th century.

All that remains of an ancient royal palace is a water channel that was used for drinking games.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

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.

Tracking the 1,500-year history of Korea's star cabbage.

These mountain hot springs have seen power struggles, doomed romances, and a generalissimo's attempted escape from mutiny.

Although resembling a grand Buddhist temple, this structure is actually the largest mosque in China.

An ancient fortification lives on in this Chinese city.

Every dish at this restaurant claims to have a health benefit.

A harrowing trail up a mile-high mountain.

Enormous burial mounds of ancient emperors.

Two ancient Buddhist temples crown this dramatic rocky pinnacle.

Massive series of 45 caves and over 51,000 sculptures carved from cliffsides in China.

The ancient settlement attracts tourists from all over looking to learn about the Chinese vision of the afterlife.

A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.

In its continuing quest to recreate famous parts of the world in miniature, China now has its own ghost Paris.

It seems that the residents of of this megalopolis suddenly vanished, but they were never actually there.

270 million year-old forest of stone.

The Devil’s own choice when he needs a drink in Brussels.

The home where the first Premier of the People's Republic of China worked and lived.

The birthplace of modern China.