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

A secret passageway from World War II is now a quirky pedestrian shortcut.

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

Paiwanese restaurant run by native indigenous Taiwanese singer songwriter, and home to a DIY arts-and-crafts folk garden.

This attraction is part anthropological journey and part amusement park.

Visit this church that's shaped like a giant glass pump either to cater to women or to reference a tragic local tale. Or both.

Life-size animals and furniture made entirely from cardboard fill this odd paper-themed restaurant.

A nostalgic restaurant evokes life in Taiwan from the 1940s to the 1970s.

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

Enormous pendulum helps keep Taiwan's tallest building from swaying.

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.

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.

Behind a bodega is a small museum of relics and ephemera showcasing the history of New York.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

Japanese gardens dedicated to the Japanese farmer that refused to throw in the trowel.

This spectacular track has run continuously since 1882.