This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

A serene space tucked amid the skyscrapers of Hong Kong's bustling financial district.

This naval gun is fired every day at noon, an odd timekeeping tradition the origin of which is local legend.

The world's longest outdoor covered escalator system transports commuters through Hong Kong's hilly terrain.

Teeming with illegal goods and services, this towering maze of vice is also a popular tourist accommodation.

This hulking behemoth is actually five interconnected towers built in the 1960s.

A thriving community of Taiwanese art.

Memorial to the father of the Republic of China.

This densely-packed cluster of buildings was saved from the wrecking ball and turned into an art community.

A small alleyway lined with locally drawn scenes of nostalgic anime and cartoon characters.

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

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

This Taiwanese promontory is covered in otherworldly hoodoo formations.

A waterfall runs right through the middle of this Taiwanese shrine to the hundreds of workers killed while building a nearby highway.

An extraordinary natural landscape of mountains, waterfalls, and rocky cliffs riddled with tunnels.

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

Once a prosperous mining village, this tiny Taiwanese town is now overrun with cute cats.

Grandpa Rainbow felt the neighborhood needed some color, so he picked up a paintbrush and went to work.

A rare pod of derelict midcentury Futuro and Venturo houses lines a semi-abandoned beachfront resort outside Taipei.

You'll never meet anyone this passionate about elephant droppings.

This extensive collection of dead bugs may be the world's most idiosyncratic and personal insect museum.

Buddha shrines hide within dark tunnels at this unique forest temple.

Thailand's distressed elephants find peace at this Chiang Mai sanctuary.

Peek into the world of those creating the beautiful, delicate paper parasols found all over the globe.