History in Taiwan

A trilingual monument marks the site of a Korean independence activist's assassination attempt on a Japanese prince in Taiwan.

A Taiwanese garden teems with the retired statues of the island's former dictator.

Just a few graves remain in this neighborhood that was once a cemetery for foreigners.

Behind a 300-year-old temple hides a small tomb said to house the bones of 17th-century Dutch soldiers.

The ruins of a prehistoric village hide on a remote Taiwanese island.

The first Confucian temple in Taiwan, founded by the son of a pirate lord, doubled as the island's first state-sponsored school.

An American lighthouse stands on an island cliffside in Taiwan.

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