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

The name of the only golden Buddhist temple in Korea translates as "the temple that protects the country."

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

A chilling monument to Korean patriots who resisted the Japanese occupation.

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.

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

A beautiful young girl said to have been buried alive in her coffin…

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

This sculpture meant to honor the bravery of the Indigenous Mapuche people of Chile proved controversial.

This museum covers 10,000 years of Pre-Columbian Latin American history.

A beautiful deserted greenhouse in the middle of a park.

This steep cable railway has been hoisting passengers in the heart of Québec City for over a century.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

Collection of skeletal systems from the "world's leading supplier of osteological specimens."

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

Iceland's first pagan temple in 1,000 years is underway in Reykjavík.

Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.

Where once there was a train station bathroom, there is now this German burger joint.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

A trough of 700 strange bronze faces runs through a narrow alley in Ljubljana's old town.

Martin Bricelj Baraga's monolithic sculpture measures the blueness of the sky, and changes color to match it.

A whimsical bridge adorned with decorative dragons.