The freshest fish here are the ones you catch yourself.

A meditative walk up 353 stairs leads to a majestic white Buddha overlooking Pai.

For centuries young Thai men used this Giant Swing as a slingshot to heaven.

The headquarters of Korea’s provisional government later became the site of a prominent statesman's assassination.

The largest and oldest brick pagoda in Korea.

This school was constructed in memory of Korean Confucian scholar Yi Hwang.

The supreme shrine of the state.

An early Korean refrigerator.

Some of the freshest vegetables in Seoul are grown in a subway station.

The burial ground of two kings and a queen is now a calm city park in the middle of bustling Seoul.

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

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

Throughout this South Korean village, homes and businesses are covered in fantastic handpainted murals.

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

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

A traditional village rooted in the Joseon Dynasty.

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

This hillside village by the sea has been revitalized by street art.

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.

Asia's largest limestone cave is home to a world of plastic goblins and gold mining history.

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

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

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