Places zichk Wants to Go

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

Landbridge created by the South Korean version of Moses.

A Korean village where times stands still.

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

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

Tracking the 1,500-year history of Korea's star cabbage.

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

In her ancestral home, one chef preserves ancient Filipino recipes and serves up traditional, home-cooked food to history-loving foodies.

A once great mansion stands in stately ruin.

Hundreds of wooden coffins dangle from cliffs and caves in the Philippines.

An eatery in a shallow river where diners can enjoy their meal mere feet from the base of an artificial waterfall.

Once the private home of China’s most legendary tycoon, getting inside this stunning mansion no longer requires an elite pedigree or acts of daring.

Come for the chanting, stay for the monastical vegan buffet.

Self-mutilation in the name of beauty.

Malaysia's first and only glass temple.

A failed Russian themed village and amusement park in Niigata prefecture.

A derelict New Zealand-themed amusement park in Japan.

The demolished ruins of a poorly located Japanese Love Hotel.

Okinawan dining in a twenty foot tall, man-made tree house overlooking Naha Harbor.

The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.

A lesser-known sister to Paris's world-famous museum, located within a Buddhist sculpture paradise.

The oldest academic institution in Japan provides a glimpse of university life during the days of the samurai.

More than 300 years old, Kyoto's historic "teahouse" still operates as an invitation-only geisha club.

Kawaii meets poisonous at this unique art gallery.