The world's oldest operating jazz club has been in operation since May 1934.

This tiny museum immortalizes the birthplace of an iconic Chinese-Korean noodle dish.

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

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

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.

Known as the birthplace of Korean Buddhism, this temple features an ancient, five-story stone pagoda.

Trees emerge from the surface of this small man-made reservoir.

A traditional village rooted in the Joseon Dynasty.

Some of the freshest vegetables in Seoul are grown in a subway station.

120 mortarless pagodas built by one Korean hermit.

The world's longest bridge fountain has hundreds of nozzles that create a beautiful, illuminated spectacle.

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

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

South Korea's only sex-themed park.

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.

High in the mountains of Kochi Prefecture, a magnificent library designed by a world-famous architect.

Narrow passes cut out of mountains surround the medieval capital of Japan.

Dedicated to the armor and weapons used by the legendary Japanese warriors.

A monk-run winery inside a Buddhist temple celebrates Japan's crown grape varietal.

"Singing sands" and the world's largest hourglass reside near Japan's Kotogahama beach.

These wondrously illuminated caverns extend under the mountains of the Fukushima Prefecture.

A 17th-century Shinto shrine that is home to statues of Mickey Mouse and Pikachu.

The floats housed in this hall are more than 100 years old, and are brought out for an annual celebration.