Perhaps the only one of its kind, the nearly-forgotten site once held mortal (and rigged) gladiatorial games between tigers and imperial war elephants.

This antique shop offers affordable 15th-century Vietnamese ceramics salvaged from a local shipwreck.

A small museum dedicated to Vietnam’s lesser-known Iron Age culture.

Home to the world's largest collection of ancient Champa's sculptural works, featuring many Hindu and Buddhist deities.

This candy-pink cathedral of Da Nang is also known as the Chicken Church.

A small section in the Bank of Korea Museum dedicated to the many varieties of the Joseon dynasty’s iconic coinage.

Collected from all around Seoul, thousands of secondhand books create this photogenic tunnel.

Booksellers and public artworks fill this vibrant promenade along the disused railroad tracks.

This ancient Corinthian helmet is South Korea’s only national treasure of Western origin.

Celebrating the history of Hangul, the Korean writing system invented by King Sejong to improve his realm’s literacy.

Visit the real-life site of the fictional pizzeria in Bong Joon-Ho's film Parasite.

The site where the Emperor of Korea performed the long-forbidden "rite of heaven" to demonstrate his absolute sovereignty.

The largest cluster of the Joseon dynasty’s royal tombs, home to the burial sites of 17 kings and queens.

It is rumored that if you spot this little golden frog hiding in plain sight, good luck will come your way.

The birthplace of the Japanese idiom "wet clothes" meaning “false accusation."

In the oldest zen temple stands a descendant of the very tree that introduced tea to Japanese culture.

This is no ordinary coffee chain outlet—it's an architectural masterpiece.

This cozy café is housed in a repurposed pharmacy originally built in 1927.

A treasure trove of pathological, forensic, parasitological, and anatomical specimens.

On stormy days debris from this unfinished and abandoned skyscraper rains down on the Bangkok streets.

The bank's whimsical shape was inspired by a child’s toy.

This ambiguous pig shrine is actually a monument to a beloved queen.

Time-frozen department store of dangerous and dusty relics.

For centuries young Thai men used this Giant Swing as a slingshot to heaven.