Places marklfarley Wants to Go

A plaque by the roadside describes a three-dimensional glossary of an imagined language where words are numbers and numbers are words.

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.

Life-size animals and furniture made entirely from cardboard fill this odd paper-themed restaurant.

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

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

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

A waste incinerator with a restaurant on its chimney.

If you've ever wanted to learn about the history of Asian fish balls, this Taiwanese museum has you covered.

Taiwan's last Chinese character letterpress preserves the dying art of Chinese character mold making.

These charming mailboxes became social media stars after a typhoon failed to topple them.

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

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

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.

Two thirds of this Montreal neon icon has survived to flash another day.

City law dictates that this mountaintop cathedral containing the heart of a saint is to remain the tallest building in town.

Small ship votives hang from the vaulted ceiling of this port-side church with a Latin inscription on the wall.

Canada's largest graveyard boasts a lot of noteworthy artifacts as well as its own computerized mapping service.

A Montreal deli that was so beloved that it was allowed to circumvent their laws of language.

One of Canada's oldest museums, the beautiful Redpath has been serving up Natural History and Ethnography since 1882.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.