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A thriving artist's wonderland located just 6 kilometers from Korea's DMZ.

To enter the lower hall of this temple, you must first walk through a dragon.

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

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

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

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

A celebration of all things tacky, garish, and bizarrely creative in the Romanian capital.

The Natural History Museum that time forgot.

A muddy alien landscape that is home to rare species of exotic plants.

No one knows who built this strange cave of worship or exactly why.

Moss and stone turn this waterfall into an otherworldly liquid veil.

Visitors can swim with vicious predators in Crocosaurus Cove's plastic daredevil enclosure.

An abandoned railroad tunnel is now filled with bioluminescent bugs.

A castle hand-built by a Spanish dreamer in the Australian tropical jungle.

Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

This active volcano's siren song to suicide jumpers forced authorities to build a fence.

The bartenders at this crime-fighting theme cafe are actual private detectives by day.

Go through the looking glass in Tokyo's Wonderland-themed shop.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

Fine dining in the bizarre world of Lewis Carroll.