These pastel-colored homes were built when the island of Macau was a Portuguese colony.

Three floors above a 2,000-year-old royal tomb is a rare collection of ancient porcelain pillows.

270 million year-old forest of stone.

It took an artist 20 years to create this sprawling sculpture garden honoring the area's ancient inhabitants.

A giant scale model giving a sneak peek at what urban planners see for Shanghai by 2020.

Rivers of cattle blood gone, a strange Escheresque building remains, the last of its kind.

This oceanfront cave was the site of a 17th-century massacre.

This seaside museum boasts a colorful collection of over 3,000 shells, the largest in Taiwan.

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

A thriving community of Taiwanese art.

The world’s largest work of glass art hides in this stunning Taiwanese subway station.

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.

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.

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.

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

This attraction is part anthropological journey and part amusement park.

The longest skywalk in Taiwan.

A once-shattered school now preserves a visible fault line, showcasing Taiwan's traumatic 1999 earthquake.

The final resting place of the dictator of Taiwan.

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

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