Taipei, Taiwan
Bei Tou Incinerator
A waste incinerator with a restaurant on its chimney.
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Taipei, Taiwan
A waste incinerator with a restaurant on its chimney.
Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
This collection of lakeside pagodas and temples are flanked by giant lions, tigers, and dragons as well as their welcoming maws.
Yuchi Township, Taiwan
This attraction is part anthropological journey and part amusement park.
Taipei, Taiwan
Enormous pendulum helps keep Taiwan's tallest building from swaying.
Budai Township, Taiwan
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.
Yehliu, Taiwan
This Taiwanese promontory is covered in otherworldly hoodoo formations.
Xiulin Township, Taiwan
A waterfall runs right through the middle of this Taiwanese shrine to the hundreds of workers killed while building a nearby highway.
Taipei, Taiwan
Looking for a crappy restaurant? Pull up a porcelain bowl and enjoy your meal.
Xiulin Township, Taiwan
An extraordinary natural landscape of mountains, waterfalls, and rocky cliffs riddled with tunnels.
New Taipei City, Taiwan
A rare pod of derelict midcentury Futuro and Venturo houses lines a semi-abandoned beachfront resort outside Taipei.
Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
The world’s largest work of glass art hides in this stunning Taiwanese subway station.
New Taipei City, Taiwan
Once a prosperous mining village, this tiny Taiwanese town is now overrun with cute cats.
Taichung City, Taiwan
Grandpa Rainbow felt the neighborhood needed some color, so he picked up a paintbrush and went to work.
Remedios, Cuba
This Cuban town sets the sky on fire around Christmas each year.
Cienfuegos, Cuba
A cemetery full of exquisite statuary, including a monument to a woman some say died of a broken heart.
Playa Girón, Cuba
A small museum in the Bay of Pigs gives the Cuban perspective on the famously failed U.S. invasion.
Trinidad, Cuba
An old slave lookout in Cuba's historic sugar cane fields.
Havana, Cuba
Castro's communist ice cream mothership has been serving five-scoop "salads" for over 50 years.
Santa Clara, Cuba
This imposing memorial contains the remains of Che Guevara — and 29 other guerrillas who died with him in Bolivia.
Havana, Cuba
After the Cuban Revolution, the famous rum company had to leave their swanky headquarters behind.
Havana, Cuba
Once a favorite playground for the world's most illustrious guests, Hotel Nacional's secret weapons and bunkers reveal a more menacing side to its golden history.
Havana, Cuba
A colorful narrow alley in Cuba is full of street art and sculptures made of found objects.
Nueva Gerona, Cuba
A series of five defunct panopticon prisons in Cuba.
Havana, Cuba
In terms of history and architecture, this is one of the most remarkable cemeteries in the world.