Where To Go Instead: 9 Famous Places and their Better Alternatives

Some well-known places are genuinely wonderful. Some just have a good marketing team. Here are nine lesser-known places to check out and have a better time for less money or hassle. Go on, admit it — part of the reason you might travel to a place is to say you’ve been...

Open once in a blue moon — places you really need to plan ahead to reach

Some places are so awesome that the world can’t handle them being open all the time. Plan ahead to see these places and you’ll be rewarded. I’ve collected a number of places from bloggers around the world, and added a couple from my own travels See the Buddhist temple...

The sex parks of South Korea (NSFW)

Let’s face it — if you’re ready for weird stuff, sex parks are right up there with hell temples in my book. Although I’ve written about each of these places individually, it’s time to roll them up into one awesome post. Here we go! Haesindang Park (Samcheok,...

Destination: Museum of Sex and Health (Seogwipo city, Jeju-do) (NSFW)

Put the kids away and head somewhere else if you’re at work — this is sex and sexual health at its most… er, interesting. Lest you think Korea is full of prudes, this museum is here to say otherwise. Founded by Kim Whan Bae (김완배), the museum opened in March of 2006...

Destination: Sansawon alcohol museum (Pocheon city, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea)

Every so often, I learn about a place that sounds unusual enough to visit — only to find out it’s much more awesome than anyone could’ve told me. Whether a stroke of good luck, a surprising find, or just a new feature added to a place, it goes from a ‘sort of cool’ to...

Destination: Icheon Pig Museum (Icheon, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea)

It was a cold day in December (and some of you folks might be wishing it were like that now!). The pig museum, while not the only place to take in near Ichon, was our main stop for the day. Those of you that are fans of the Chris in South Korea Facebook page may...

Destination: Yonggungsa — the seaside temple (Busan)

With thousands of temples across the peninsula, you’d be forgiven if they all started to look similar. While they’re all unique, you’d need to have a pretty educated background and finely tuned eye to tell them apart. Enter Yonggungsa, AKA Haedong Yonggungsa, AKA 해동...

Revisited: Oedo – a magical, tropical island (Geoje-do, Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea)

Author’s note: ‘Revisited’ posts are intended to be a fresh look at a place I’ve visited before. In many cases, it will have been years between visits, and offers a chance to see a place with a fresh set of eyes (and more than likely, a much better camera than I had...

Destination: Woori Bank Museum (central Seoul, South Korea)

Having recently re-visited the Bank Museum in downtown Seoul, I was happy to see it hadn’t changed before making my way to Myeongdong and otherwise enjoying the area. It was a couple weeks later when I was walking through that same pedestrian overpass and realized...

Destination: the Cheonggyecheon Museum and the historically questionable shacks (Seoul, South Korea)

If you read blogs about South Korea, you may have come across Seoul Sub>urban, a blog that visits the immediate vicinity of a random subway station in Seoul to see what’s around. After a fairly recent post about Yongdu station, a couple of the destinations looked...