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

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

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

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

This traditional home is a rare example of 19th-century Korean architecture.

Natural rock formations resembling monks in hats inspire folk legends.

This small island declared independence from South Korea in the hopes of attracting tourists.

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

According to legend, those who pray at this statue will also be granted a wish.

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

The Shinsegae Department Store is the largest of its kind in the whole world.

One of only a handful of seaside temples in Korea, this sacred space is home to a legendary healing Buddha statue and a traffic safety prayer pagoda.

This tomb's name derives from a famous painting of a white horse found inside.

Numerical symbolism abound at East Asia's oldest observatory.

From mid-September to early November, dreamy fields of pink muhly grass spring up all over South Korea.

An early Korean refrigerator.

This human-made pond is part of a Korean palace complex first built in the 7th century.

This 317-ton walkable art installation is an homage to Korea's "City of Steel."

Hundreds of statues of Buddha’s disciples meditating, napping, sneezing, and picking their noses.

This sawtooth mountain range still bears the strangely lovely marks of its history as a medieval quarry.

This giant seated Bhudda of Healing dates to the 1780s.

The Buddhist temples of Yamadera, built into a mountain side, feature a viewing deck with sweeping views.

This mountain's identity is stuck somewhere between a nightmare and a scenic tourist attraction.

The world's longest tunnel with an undersea section.