Hampyeong, South Korea
Hampyeong Expo Park
It’s a bug’s life at this Korean eco-event park, built to host an annual butterfly festival.
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Hampyeong, South Korea
It’s a bug’s life at this Korean eco-event park, built to host an annual butterfly festival.
Suwon, South Korea
The toilet-shaped house of South Korea's sanitation pioneer is now a museum to the john.
Jeongseon, South Korea
A Korean rock bassist's wild dream has become a reality at this completely insane boutique hotel.
Gangneung, South Korea
Explore the history of recorded sound at the world's third largest collection of Edison memorabilia.
Itaewon-ro, South Korea
Home to more than 13,000 pieces of war memorabilia and military equipment.
Pohang, South Korea
Japan and South Korea both lay claim to islands inhabited by one woman.
Seoul, South Korea
Tracking the 1,500-year history of Korea's star cabbage.
Jinan, South Korea
120 mortarless pagodas built by one Korean hermit.
Gyeongju, South Korea
Numerical symbolism abound at East Asia's oldest observatory.
Seogwipo, South Korea
South Korea's women of the sea have completely flipped their society's structure by becoming revered fisherwomen.
Gyeongju, South Korea
This odd museum/art gallery embraces the physiological, zoological, and ethnographic side of sex.
Jeongseon, South Korea
Asia's largest limestone cave is home to a world of plastic goblins and gold mining history.
Suncheon, South Korea
A Korean village where times stands still.
Hapcheon, South Korea
Over 80,000 carved wood blocks make up one of the world's oldest intact Buddhist canons.
Hachimantai, Japan
Abandoned Japanese ghost town gives a glimpse into what our own metropolises may leave behind.
Nagano, Japan
This ancient temple is set up to take you on a pilgrimage of self.
Tokyo, Japan
Starship-temple contains 400 tons of drinking water and offers free Japanese lessons.
Tokyo, Japan
A Buddhist temple to honor insects that died for science.
Iwaizumi, Japan
A massive cave complex boasts some of the clearest water (and most charming bats) in the world.
Atami, Japan
Museum showcases Japanese sexuality and some amazing ocean views.
Kamakura, Japan
A bronze statue dating back as far as 1252, still has remnants of gold on its right cheek from ancient gilding.
Fujinomiya, Japan
Reportedly 1,400 years old, this may be the first of the Fiji Mermaids.
Tokyo, Japan
Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.
Hakone, Japan
Legend holds eating just one of these black eggs can add seven years to one's life.