A thriving community of Taiwanese art.

The world’s largest work of glass art hides in this stunning Taiwanese subway station.

This collection of lakeside pagodas and temples are flanked by giant lions, tigers, and dragons as well as their welcoming maws.

A cornucopia of gargoyles adorns the oldest portion of Oxford’s Magdalen College.

A 100-year-old Japanese command center is now a unique underground university walkway with periodic exhibits.

A Japanese colonial-era hot springs hotel that has transformed into an art museum.

A museum commemorates what was once the largest freight station in Taiwan.

The first Confucian temple in Taiwan, founded by the son of a pirate lord, doubled as the island's first state-sponsored school.

Hidden in a cave on a small Taiwanese island, a stalagmite reported to look like the bodhisattva Guanyin.

An American lighthouse stands on an island cliffside in Taiwan.

On the roof of the oldest department store in Tainan stands a Shinto shrine dating back to the 1930s.

The tangled roots of a giant banyan tree have fully reclaimed the ruins of this abandoned warehouse.

A museum cafe showcases Native American dishes and indigenous ingredients from across the Western Hemisphere.

America's first public mental health facility.

Affectionately known as "Lord Bot," this historic statue has a cult social media following and rightly claims to be “the most metal inhabitant of the Wren Yard.”

Enjoy dishes that founding fathers once ate at this Colonial Williamsburg pub.

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.

William Faulkner kept his beloved estate wild and untamed.

J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.

The spot where Oxford garnered its name was also home to a medieval philosopher and includes a house covered in statues.

The lantern carried by the infamous Guy Fawkes when he was arrested while attempting to blow the houses of Parliament and the King of England to smithereens

Hidden in plain sight, this creepy sculpture watches from above.

Once one of the largest rooms full of books in the world, this bookstore basement is still a treat for bibliophiles.

The fantastic charm of England's oldest botanical garden has made it a place of writerly inspiration for centuries.