This amended headstone marks the grave of a participant in one of the most successful military deceptions of all time.

This smaller cousin of the Forbidden City has gone from ancestral sacrifice to tourist's whispers.

Why walk on this historical site when you can zoom down instead?

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

On any given day this sprawling market houses literally tons of government-regulated gold, gems, and precious metals.

A preposterously luxurious hotel with gold-plated iPads, Rolls Royce chauffeurs, and a staff that trains by watching "Downton Abbey."

Robot jockeys ride their humped mounts to victory as part of a 21st-century twist on an ancient desert sport.

Home to more than 13,000 pieces of war memorabilia and military equipment.

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

Numerical symbolism abound at East Asia's oldest observatory.

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

South Korea's only sex-themed park.

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

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

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

South Korea's largely symbolic, barely used gateway to the North.