These large speakers once broadcasted propaganda across the strait to the People’s Republic of China.

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

This historic 19th-century building was the center of British trade and diplomacy in Taiwan.

The final resting place of the dictator of Taiwan.

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

Taiwan's first stone fortress is also the best preserved Qing Dynasty-era city on the island.

This public artwork, hidden down a cliffside hiking trail, encourages visitors to contemplate the tides.

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

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

Step into this whimsical art installation based on a popular picture book.

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

A thriving community of Taiwanese art.

Memorial to the father of the Republic of China.

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

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

A nostalgic restaurant evokes life in Taiwan from the 1940s to the 1970s.

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

This Taiwanese promontory is covered in otherworldly hoodoo formations.

An extraordinary natural landscape of mountains, waterfalls, and rocky cliffs riddled with tunnels.

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

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

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

A rare pod of derelict midcentury Futuro and Venturo houses lines a semi-abandoned beachfront resort outside Taipei.

The longest skywalk in Taiwan.