Places FlyExpat Wants to Go

This hike brings visitors closer to Taipei 101, once the world’s tallest building, than any other trail.

This lopsided, earthquake-damaged temple stands as a testament to Taiwan’s resilience.

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

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 kitschy, kinky homage to Taipei’s old “grandpa shops” is full of eye-candy.

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

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.

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.

This statue of Buddha has a distinctive hairstyle meant to represent an unfathomably long period of meditation.

A train ride to the middle of nowhere gives its passengers some of the most iconic views of Japan's seasons.

Blowtorches, tuna, and a jolly, chain-smoking proprietor mark this beloved street-food stand.

All that is left of an Armenian community that thrived in Dhaka 200 years ago.

Hidden under the thick tropical vegetation of a cemetery is the tomb of Columbo Sahib.

This historic textile city was abandoned after being ravaged by fire.

Ancient and modern architecture are joined in Louis Kahn's monument to democracy.

This colorful palace is an oasis of calm amid the hustle and bustle of the Buriganga riverfront.

Reaching the "Church in the Sky" requires scaling the cliff face of a sandstone pinnacle with a 650-foot drop.

This 17th-century Bhutanese monastery is ensconced in Buddhist legend.

This penis-focused monastery is dedicated to Buddhism's "Divine Madman."

This colorful overpass is one of Bhutan's longest suspension bridges.

The largest and, arguably, most scenic fortress in Bhutan.

This giant Buddha statue has 125,000 smaller Buddhas hidden inside it.