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

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

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

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

This Vietnamese bar doubles as a multistory labyrinth.

One of Vietnam's most iconic landmarks was built by Japanese traders and is now in danger of sinking.

This Vietnamese hell cave lets visitors take a walk through a devilish underworld full of demons.

This bridge is embedded with a giant steel dragon that breathes fire from its mouth.

An extravagant monument to an extravagantly unpopular Emperor.

Perhaps the only one of its kind, the nearly-forgotten site once held mortal (and rigged) gladiatorial games between tigers and imperial war elephants.

This network of tunnels housed an entire village for years, and even had a hall for screening movies.

World's largest cave was only discovered in 1991, and now offers tours to the public.

Twice a day a speeding train passes only inches from the homes of this residential neighborhood.

The notorious "Hanoi Hilton" where Vietnamese colonial subjects and later American POWs, including John McCain, were imprisoned.

A gift from the Soviet Union in the 1980s, this is the only statue of the Soviet dictator in Southeast Asia.

Under Hanoi’s medieval citadel sits a secret military headquarters from the final years of the Vietnam War.

Ho Chi Minh's perfectly preserved body has been on display here since 1975.

Known as Manila's "last lung," this park used to house a market, garrison, and various government buildings.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

A brutalist gem towering over the heart of Milan.

Hundreds of wooden coffins dangle from cliffs and caves in the Philippines.

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

Just off the road outside Baguio, a gigantic lion's head carved into a mountain greets those driving by.

An island in the middle of a lake, in the middle of a volcano, in the middle of a bigger lake, in the middle of a bigger island, in an archipelago, in the Pacific Ocean.