Places DrChopSuey Wants to Go

The magical, mossy forest that inspired 'Princess Mononoke.'

Though it is hundreds of years old, the intricate details on this 23-foot rock carving of Buddha have been preserved.

A traditional village rooted in the Joseon Dynasty.

The largest and oldest brick pagoda in Korea.

South Korea's only sex-themed park.

Low tide reveals an ocean bridge to an island full of art.

A guardian spirit sculpture that once guarded the tomb of a 6th-century Korean king.

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

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.

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

The largest cluster of the Joseon dynasty’s royal tombs, home to the burial sites of 17 kings and queens.

Collected from all around Seoul, thousands of secondhand books create this photogenic tunnel.

This pagoda was once the central feature of a Buddhist temple that no longer exists.

Booksellers and public artworks fill this vibrant promenade along the disused railroad tracks.

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

Celebrating the history of Hangul, the Korean writing system invented by King Sejong to improve his realm’s literacy.

This pre-Revolutionary War grist mill ground corn and flour for soldiers in seven American wars.

This restored house built from a Sears kit in the 1930s is a physical remnant of FDR's New Deal following the Great Depression.

The iconic D.C. restaurant where the Cuban Missile Crisis was negotiated, now a Walgreens.

You could be standing at the site of one of D.C.'s most fatal tragedies and not even know it.

A bizarre object of worship believed to grant wishes to those who tie it up with a rope.

Historic site where Native American hunters once trapped and killed buffalo.

Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.

This museum, established in Butte's lost Chinatown, celebrates Asian-American culture in what was once the world's largest mining camp.