120 mortarless pagodas built by one Korean hermit.

South Korea's women of the sea have completely flipped their society's structure by becoming revered fisherwomen.

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

A Korean village where times stands still.

Asia's largest limestone cave is home to a world of plastic goblins and gold mining history.

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

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

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

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

The abandoned hospital whose elaborate ghost stories cover up the dirty truth - an uneventful sanitation issue and other mundane reasons for its demise.

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

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.

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

Since 1874, this macabre collection has developed into a museum devoted to Scotland Yard's mementos of dastardly deeds.

A fully functional, 200-year-old remnant of the time when Brixton was mostly fields.

The secret wartime bunker built on the platforms of an abandoned Tube station.

The home studio one of Britain's first independent record producers is also the site of a murder-suicide.

The world’s largest magazine collection was born from a single shelf in a teen’s bedroom.

A statue of the original Pearly King is hidden in a church's crypt.

Legends say that this Art Deco apartment building almost became Hitler's British headquarters.

A relic from one of London's worst 19th-century slums.

A historic hill of tall tales, with one rather special tree.

London's amazing modernist public square that never was.