Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

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

Hakka-style teahouse where everybody grinds their own tea.

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.

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

A plaque by the roadside describes a three-dimensional glossary of an imagined language where words are numbers and numbers are words.

This attraction is part anthropological journey and part amusement park.

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

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

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

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

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

Waste incinerator with a restaurant on its chimney.

If you've ever wanted to learn about the history of Asian fish balls, this Taiwanese museum has you covered.

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

These charming mailboxes became social media stars after a typhoon failed to topple them.

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

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

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.

Two thirds of this Montreal neon icon has survived to flash another day.

City law dictates that this mountaintop cathedral containing the heart of a saint is to remain the tallest building in town.