A thriving community of Taiwanese art.

Dine amidst exotic plants at this former royal greenhouse.

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.

This grand manse has been transformed into a museum devoted to one of the founders of Fantastic Realism.

Inside the corridors of this flea market, visitors are sure to find some obscure and odd treasures.

The Habsburgs' royal collections of art and wonders.

A tropical paradise just a short trip from the opera house is filled with beautiful winged creatures.

A station built to repel pirates now attracts wealthy vacationers.

With over 12,000 different species of plants, this botanical garden is Japan's oldest and most diverse.

The magical, mossy forest that inspired Princess Mononoke.

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

Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

The quintessential Japanese rock garden has existed for more than 500 years.

Steaming blood-red hot spring from hell.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

This skewed English house has looked like it's going to fall over for centuries.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

This once-derelict building is now one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world.

Hakka-style teahouse where everybody grinds their own tea.

A tiny collection of traditional Japanese woodblock prints, open only when the owner feels like it.

Monks turned this mountain into a temple by digging grottoes, tunnels, and a huge pagoda-like hall.