One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

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

Buy your fish and have it cooked to order in this bustling, eight-floor seafood market.

This shrine dedicated to a legendary swordsman has become a pilgrimage site for the ill and infirmed.

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

Cherry blossom season comes early in this Japanese town where pink flowers line the streets and riverbanks.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

The burial grounds of a Chinese eunuch who served his way into the highest levels of Imperial government.

This ancient sword lay in a waterlogged tomb for 2,500 years, but managed to remain relatively untarnished and impressively sharp.

A son-and-daughter meat market, hawked by mom and dad.

These tiny statues form a terracotta army from China's Han dynasty.

Home to over 200,000 artifacts, this museum attempts to guide visitors through the ancient history of Beijing and Imperial China.

This sensational Chinese temple walks visitors through the 76 weird departments of the afterlife.

Where the Great Wall of China meets the sea.

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

This beautiful 16th-century necropolis marks an astonishing feat in heritage conservation.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

This hidden rooftop garden in downtown London offers a quiet respite from a bustling city.

The beloved beast's taxidermy remains sit in the Natural History Museum's cafe.

A celebrated bandstand at the center of what was once the worst slum in London.

This intriguing Bronze Age artifact spent centuries hidden within a Welsh faerie hill.

A gruesome and mysterious ancient sculpture of a pagan deity from the Roman occupation of Celtic Britain.

This bewitching Babylonian goddess haunts a hallway of the British Museum.

This ancient Egyptian obelisk still bears the wounds of World War I.