North Korea

The burial complexes of the Goguryeo kingdom (37 BCE–668 CE), one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, containing wall paintings of exceptional quality that constitute the largest surviving corpus of ancient Korean mural art.

The last capital of the Koryo dynasty (918–1392 CE), Kaesong preserves royal tombs, Confucian academies, city gates and the Sonjuk Bridge in a compact historic core that is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

A 170-metre granite tower on the banks of the Taedong River in Pyongyang, built in 1982 to symbolise the Juche philosophy of self-reliance and offering an elevator ascent to an observation platform with sweeping city views.

A coastal mountain in northeastern North Korea, celebrated for the three-colour autumn foliage of its maple and oak forests, with Buddhist temple ruins and natural sea stacks completing a landscape of exceptional scenic beauty.

A forested mountain sacred to Korean Buddhism, home to the seventeenth-century Pohyon Temple, one of the best-preserved Buddhist complexes in North Korea and a repository of significant art and scripture.

A sacred volcanic peak on the China–North Korea border, capped by the crater lake Chon Lake; birthplace of the Korean nation and a site of deep mythological and political significance.