Collected from all around Seoul, thousands of secondhand books create this photogenic tunnel.

An all-female order shares an ancient culinary art with visitors at their mountaintop monastery.

This former coal mine has been turned into a sprawling modern art complex.

The darkest building on Earth was built for the snow-white scenery of the 2018 Winter Olympics.

Some of the freshest vegetables in Seoul are grown in a subway station.

A thriving surf community exists in relative remoteness along the former boundary between North and South Korea.

South Korea's largely symbolic, barely used gateway to the North.

The toilet-shaped house of South Korea's sanitation pioneer is now a museum to the john.

Throughout this South Korean village, homes and businesses are covered in fantastic handpainted murals.

Seoul amusement park boasts a Korean-speaking pachyderm.

This pagoda was once the central feature of a Buddhist temple that no longer exists.

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

Along a rail-biking route, giant insects house a two-story restaurant.

South Korea's women of the sea have completely flipped their society's structure by becoming revered fisherwomen.

The world's longest bridge fountain has hundreds of nozzles that create a beautiful, illuminated spectacle.

A chilling monument to Korean patriots who resisted the Japanese occupation.

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

Plenty of old carney magic still haunts this photogenic amusement park.

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.

South Korea's only sex-themed park.

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

This quirky Korean eatery is built to resemble an equally quirky vintage camera.

Secret North Korean passage discovered below the world's most dangerous border.