A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

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

Along a rail-biking route, giant insects house a two-story restaurant.

This hillside village by the sea has been revitalized by street art.

Its humdrum facade only adds to its electrifying appeal: a rooftop with panoramic views of a shapeshifting metropolis.

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.

Rocks that take on the likenesses of several recognizable living entities crowd the Wang dong Rock Quarries.

A monument to the two U.S. officers killed by North Korean troops while trying to trim a poplar tree.

It’s a bug’s life at this Korean eco-event park, built to host an annual butterfly festival.

The site of many tense prisoner exchanges across the Military Demarcation Line between North and South Korea.

The toilet-shaped house of South Korea's sanitation pioneer is now a museum to the john.

Japan and South Korea both lay claim to islands inhabited by one woman.

Ancient temple is home to centuries of art and spiritual artifacts.

120 mortarless pagodas built by one Korean hermit.

Numerical symbolism abound at East Asia's oldest observatory.

A remnant of Korea's colonial past lies forgotten in a hip neighborhood in Seoul.

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

The world's first cruise ship-shaped hotel is perched atop a cliff.