Memorial to the father of the Republic of China.

Enormous pendulum helps keep Taiwan's tallest building from swaying.

Looking for a crappy restaurant? Pull up a porcelain bowl and enjoy your meal.

This attraction is part anthropological journey and part amusement park.

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

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

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

A waterfall runs right through the middle of this Taiwanese shrine to the hundreds of workers killed while building a nearby highway.

Bizarrely shaped rock formations in northwest Bulgaria come with equally bizarre legends.

"Holy Wisdom" overlooks the city that became its namesake.

Sofia's legislative center is continuously reinventing itself.

A striking symbol of the Bulgarian capital.

A Bulgarian monument to Russia's role in World War II is constantly being painted in pop culture protest.

A vast Communist-era exhibition space in the Bulgarian capital.

A collection of art from Bulgaria's time as a communist state.

A gigantic statue of a Russian soldier watches over the ancient city of Plovdiv, a prominent reminder of the Soviet period in Bulgaria.

UNESCO-protected ancient burial ground.

An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.

An homage to the medieval rulers of Bulgaria.

This massive concrete sculpture is said to be the heaviest communist monument on Earth.

Mysterious standing stone formations looks like a petrified forest.

This once-grandiose behemoth of a monument from the socialist era now sits quiet and closed up.

An ancient Thracian city where fire rituals were practiced on the largest cult altar in Southeast Europe.

In a long-dry lake bed, these groups of massive stone pillars bear a striking resemblance to clumps of everyone's favorite fungi.