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

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

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

The 400-year-old remains of the samurai invasion of Korea.

120 mortarless pagodas built by one Korean hermit.

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.

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

A thriving artist's wonderland located just 6 kilometers from Korea's DMZ.

Over 80,000 carved wood blocks make up one of the world's oldest intact Buddhist canons.

A Korean village where times stands still.

This former coal mine has been turned into a sprawling modern art complex.

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

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

To enter the lower hall of this temple, you must first walk through a dragon.

One man and his wife have turned a barren Korean island into a fantastical botanical wonderland.

A 32-acre fun park dedicated to all things cheese.

This quirky Korean eatery is built to resemble an equally quirky vintage camera.

The abandoned hospital whose elaborate ghost stories cover up the dirty truth - an uneventful sanitation issue and other mundane reasons for its demise.

Secret North Korean passage discovered below the world's most dangerous border.

Plenty of old carney magic still haunts this photogenic amusement park.

A dilapidated amusement park with a million-dollar view.

An eerie maze of industrial factories looks like something out of a dystopian sci-fi.

A massive wintry wall of snow up to 66 feet tall flanks a highway through Japan's mountains.

The largest of the Fuji Five Lakes is home to an impressive swan population—some real, some with paddles, and one with an observation deck.