Intensely colorful calcite pools in Southern China.

A KFC honors an eighth-century Chinese poet with holograms and verse.

This Tang Dynasty behemoth is the biggest Buddha in the world.

A memorial honoring a mathematician likely murdered by Taiwan's authoritarian government.

These two 90-year-old statues were once part of a Japanese Shinto shrine.

The bright-orange, crane-shaped tower offers panoramic views and showcases the city’s maritime identity.

A Japanese colonial-era hot springs hotel that has transformed into an art museum.

A museum about rituals, ghosts, and demons from around Asia, set in the middle of the peaceful Jiufen.

Memorial to the father of the Republic of China.

Once a prosperous mining village, this tiny Taiwanese town is now overrun with cute cats.

Up on the iconic Tsutenkaku Tower sits an American mascot that became Osaka’s own lucky god.

Home to the world's oldest wooden building.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

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

Every spring, this walkway outside the Japan Mint turns into a cherry blossom tunnel.

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

Established over a thousand years ago, this family-run teahouse continues to serve skewers of sweet rice cake to this day.

Although it has never been a secret ninja base, this shrine still has plenty of tricks up its sleeve.

View Japan's most historic city from a cyberpunk walkway suspended 150 feet above the ground.

This 14th-century temple is also known as the "Temple of the Golden Pavilion" for its gorgeous gilded reliquary hall.

A shrine contains nearly 200 statues of the Buddhist deity Jizo, dressed in bibs by parents who have lost a child.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

Although resembling a grand Buddhist temple, this structure is actually the largest mosque in China.