Enormous pendulum helps keep Taiwan's tallest building from swaying.

A steaming, boiling hellscape sources Hokkaido's thermal baths.

This mesmerizingly colorful pond looks like a scene straight out of a fairytale.

This odd museum/art gallery embraces the physiological, zoological, and ethnographic side of sex.

The place nearest Seoul where it’s easy to get a good look at North Korea.

Numerical symbolism abound at East Asia's oldest observatory.

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

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

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

This historic rec center in the heart of Israel is a bastion of peace and togetherness.

Neighborhood in Jerusalem is home to the ultra-orthodox haredim.

The only quarter of the Old City not dedicated to a major world religion.

This full-sized orange tree lives suspended in mid-air above the streets of Jaffa.

Descend 2,030 years into the past in an ancient tunnel built to support Jerusalem's most famous wall.

The home of the Dead Sea Scrolls is an abstract modernist dream.

This abandoned railroad got a new life as a scenic promenade cutting through the city of Otaru.

An open-air museum exhibiting a total of 52 century-old buildings, recreating Hokkaido’s “pioneer village.”

This whimsical garbage disposal facility receives around 12,000 accidental tourists each year.

A moss-covered statue of a Japanese Buddhist deity stands at a quiet temple in downtown Osaka.

This 14th-century temple is also known as the "Temple of the Golden Pavilion" for its gorgeous gilded reliquary hall.

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

A historic and beautiful Art Nouveau chamber in a historic railway station.