Places hellogigi Wants to Go

This pond is so stunning it looks like you've stepped into one of Monet's masterpieces.

An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.

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

Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.

A massive cave complex boasts some of the clearest water (and most charming bats) in the world.

The quintessential Japanese rock garden has existed for more than 500 years.

Open-air museum with an elaborate sculpture garden, stretching for over 70,000 square-meters.

A 70-foot-deep ice cave formed by lava from Mt. Fuji on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest." 

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

This spa theme park lets its guests take a dip in pools of coffee, wine, or ramen broth.

Bioluminescent firefly squid light up this Japanese fishing port.

The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.

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

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

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.

Various forms of phallic art decorate this hill in commemoration of legendary local tragedy.

About as hidden as can be, this specialty coffee shop is wedged between multi-story buildings at the end of a dark, skinny alleyway in Seoul.

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

South Korea's only sex-themed park.

A theme park made of glass, from the gleaming books on the shelves to the crystal fish in the mirror lake.

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

South Korea's love of the silly photograph is on full display at this goofy collection of trompe l'oeil paintings.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.