Buddha shrines hide within dark tunnels at this unique forest temple.

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

This statue of a medical missionary is sometimes used to gauge flood levels during typhoons.

Memorial to the father of the Republic of China.

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

This densely-packed cluster of buildings was saved from the wrecking ball and turned into an art community.

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

The final resting place of the dictator of Taiwan.

A small alleyway lined with locally drawn scenes of nostalgic anime and cartoon characters.

A hotel in Taiwan based on the better business practices that can be gleaned from Jewish law.

A monument to placate the spirits of an ancient forest.

You can still see the remains of a sacred 3,000-year-old cypress.

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

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

On the roof of the oldest department store in Tainan stands a Shinto shrine dating back to the 1930s.

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

The tangled roots of a giant banyan tree have fully reclaimed the ruins of this abandoned warehouse.

Nestled between the Sicao Green Tunnel and Dazhong Temple, an antiquated exhibition hall boasts the complete skeletons of mother and child sperm whales.

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.

This attraction is part anthropological journey and part amusement park.

This historic Australian bridge was built by convicts with giant stone spikes to prevent cattle from falling off the sides.

One of the best beaches in the entire world.

A natural rock bridge towers above the sea.

This extraordinary geological oddity resembles human-made pavement.