Roman-era ships unearthed...

Along a manmade hexagonal lake lies what was once the main port of ancient Rome.

A literary park dedicated to the memory of a filmmaker, writer, and intellectual who was killed in 1975.

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

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

Only through deep darkness and tragedy did this elaborate royal palace become a sacred temple.

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.

Taiwan’s iconic dish is in peak form here.

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

At a museum dedicated to the millenia-old rites and art of Buddhism, the Buddha's reputed tooth is held as an object of worship.

This collection of lakeside pagodas and temples are flanked by giant lions, tigers, and dragons as well as their welcoming maws.

A thriving community of Taiwanese art.

A Japanese-era military tunnel is now a psychedelic art exhibit.

Movie buffs will love this Taiwanese director’s ode to film history.

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

The final resting place of the dictator of Taiwan.

A Japanese colonial-era hot springs hotel that has transformed into an art museum.

An otherwise typical Beitou alley is home to statues of Chiang Kai-shek and his son.

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

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

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

Paiwanese restaurant run by native indigenous Taiwanese singer songwriter, and home to a DIY arts-and-crafts folk garden.

Try Taiwan's iconic Apple Bread—which traditionally contains no apples—at the bakery that invented it.