No children ride down this antique concrete slide.

This public artwork, hidden down a cliffside hiking trail, encourages visitors to contemplate the tides.

A monument to placate the spirits of an ancient forest.

Housed in a Japanese colonial-era bank, this cafe pours next-level cold brew.

Taiwan's first stone fortress is also the best preserved Qing Dynasty-era city on the island.

An antiquated aquarium housed in a converted government anti-nuclear bunker.

Just a few graves remain in this neighborhood that was once a cemetery for foreigners.

On Green Island, a rock resembling the ancient Chinese sage gazes contemplatively out at sea.

This seaside museum boasts a colorful collection of over 3,000 shells, the largest in Taiwan.

This historic 19th-century building was the center of British trade and diplomacy in Taiwan.

High rises built to house displaced military personnel and their families form a unique cylindrical shape.

At a museum dedicated to the millenia-old rites and art of Buddhism, the Buddha's reputed tooth is held as an object of worship.

This unique blend of Japanese and Western architecture provides a glimpse into the lives of the Japanese elites who once ruled Taiwan.

A Japanese-era military tunnel is now a psychedelic art exhibit.

Behind a 300-year-old temple hides a small tomb said to house the bones of 17th-century Dutch soldiers.

The ruins of a prehistoric village hide on a remote Taiwanese island.

Nestled between the Sicao Green Tunnel and Dazhong Temple, an antiquated exhibition hall boasts the complete skeletons of mother and child sperm whales.

Down-home Arkansas comfort food comes with a side of American pop culture kitsch.

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

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

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

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

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.