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

The tangled roots of a giant banyan tree have fully reclaimed the ruins of this abandoned warehouse.

This collection of lakeside pagodas and temples are flanked by giant lions, tigers, and dragons as well as their welcoming maws.

The world’s largest work of glass art hides in this stunning Taiwanese subway station.

A thriving community of Taiwanese art.

One of the first big sculptures anywhere in Australia.

An extraordinary natural landscape of mountains, waterfalls, and rocky cliffs riddled with tunnels.

A waterfall runs right through the middle of this Taiwanese shrine to the hundreds of workers killed while building a nearby highway.

A memorial to the thousands of political dissidents imprisoned during the 38-year period of martial law in Taiwan.

Once a prosperous mining village, this tiny Taiwanese town is now overrun with cute cats.

This Taiwanese promontory is covered in otherworldly hoodoo formations.

A rare pod of derelict midcentury Futuro and Venturo houses lines a semi-abandoned beachfront resort outside Taipei.

A secret passageway from World War II is now a quirky pedestrian shortcut.

This densely-packed cluster of buildings was saved from the wrecking ball and turned into an art community.

These charming mailboxes became social media stars after a typhoon failed to topple them.

Buddha shrines hide within dark tunnels at this unique forest temple.

A quaint village where bomb casings from the Second Indochina War have been repurposed into mundane objects.

Buried in the Laos jungle is a sanctuary for bears that would have otherwise been milked to death by poachers.

These bamboo and rope bridges cross the Nam Khan River for six months every year.

This tiered waterfall is so pretty it may cause visitors to cry tears of their own.

A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

Where an entire elephant skeleton, a snakeskin table runner, and thousands of animal remains become art.

Thousands of effigies of Buddha watch from caves set high above a legendary river, plus whiskey.

Hindu temple of the dead home to hundreds of long-tailed macaques.