With its vast selection of books, comics, and records, this nearly 70-year-old open-air market always rewards the patient browser.

Xul Solar was an artist of alternate worlds, inventor of languages, and dreamer of utopias.

These tiered rice paddies were carved into the hillsides 2,000 years ago.

A 50-foot-tall statue of Jesus where a stairway transports the faithful into his body.

Some locals believe the fabled lost gold of General Yamashida is hiding somewhere beneath the city.

Five miles of underground river link lake to ocean.

An eatery in a shallow river where diners can enjoy their meal mere feet from the base of an artificial waterfall.

Teeming with illegal goods and services, this towering maze of vice is also a popular tourist accommodation.

In Hong Kong, a fairytale flower tunnel is hidden within the gardens of a public housing complex.

This hulking behemoth is actually five interconnected towers built in the 1960s.

The winter home of millions of migrating monarch butterflies.

Extraordinary sculpture garden created by an eccentric English poet.

A jaw-dropping "megalibrary" that turns book-browsing into a geometric adventure.

An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.

A small museum dedicated to one of the most popular fish in Taiwanese cuisine.

This kitschy, kinky homage to Taipei’s old “grandpa shops” is full of eye-candy.

Taiwan’s iconic dish is in peak form here.

Air-raid tunnels hidden beneath this opulent hotel provided shelter and an escape route—and one of the world's longest slides.

This attraction is part anthropological journey and part amusement park.

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

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.

Looking for a crappy restaurant? Pull up a porcelain bowl and enjoy your meal.

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