Places Getty Hesse Wants to Go

A memorial honoring a mathematician likely murdered by Taiwan's authoritarian government.

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

A rock, a temple, and a window into Taiwan’s rich cultural mythology—wrapped in a serene city escape.

Learn all about Taiwanese financial history from inside a former high-security vault.

The bright-orange, crane-shaped tower offers panoramic views and showcases the city’s maritime identity.

A museum of puppets and puppetry covering all Asian styles.

A museum about rituals, ghosts, and demons from around Asia, set in the middle of the peaceful Jiufen.

The residence of a Taiwanese literary scholar sits down an alleyway adorned with depictions of snails.

A forgotten hiker’s lodge, now reclaimed by the forest, with its chimney standing as a lone sentinel of the past.

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

A wonderfully eclectic Victorian aquarium lies in the basement of the Horniman Museum.

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

This aquarium has almost as many world records as it does fish.

One of the world's largest tanks mimics the experience of watching rare whale sharks, giant rays, and deep sea creatures from the ocean floor.

A waste incinerator with a restaurant on its chimney.

Hakka-style teahouse where everybody grinds their own tea.

In a park on Taiwan's rugged Eastern coast, a marker celebrates a glorious sight from the fictional Kcymaerxthaere.

This Taiwanese promontory is covered in otherworldly hoodoo formations.

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

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

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.

A waterfall runs right through the middle of this Taiwanese shrine to the hundreds of workers killed while building a nearby highway.

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