Only through deep darkness and tragedy did this elaborate royal palace become a sacred temple.

An imperial art museum offers edible versions of its most treasured displays in an on-site fine-dining restaurant.

Memorial to the father of the Republic of China.

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

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

This Taiwanese promontory is covered in otherworldly hoodoo formations.

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

From Austrians to Nazis to Soviets, this historic Budapest fortress has a history as complex as the city itself.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.