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

A festival where people vie to be bombarded by exploding clusters of fireworks.

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

Taiwan's last Chinese character letterpress preserves the dying art of Chinese character mold making.

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.

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.

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

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

At the right time of day, sunlight floods through the roof of this cave and illuminates the small pavilion hidden within.

Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.

An ancient city hidden in the heart of the Sierra Nevada mountains.

One of São Paulo's tight urban intersections has become a haven for graffiti artists ever since a single Batman started the trend.

The displays in this off-the-beaten-path museum highlight the holistic, indigenous methods of healing.

The masses at this church incorporate enough moonshine and animal sacrifice that they are no longer recognizably Catholic.

This subterranean spot might be the epitome of Japan's baroque, retro coffee houses.

This bird-loving brewery is situated in an old municipal bathhouse, nestled beside a 300-year-old windmill.

This spectacular track has run continuously since 1882.

Try your hand at old-fashioned coffee growing at this museum devoted to one of the world's most coveted beans.

A trio of giant wooden megaphones turn up nature's volume in this Estonian forest.

Historical figures from New York City's Catholic community reside in Midtown.