Places mossenmoons Wants to Go

This attraction is part anthropological journey and part amusement park.

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

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

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

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

This Taiwanese promontory is covered in otherworldly hoodoo formations.

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

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.

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.

Order your phở stir-fried, sans soup.

A small museum dedicated to Vietnam’s lesser-known Iron Age culture.

Don’t miss the local staple of rice vermicelli with charcoal-grilled pork patties and pork belly.

This time-honored eatery near Hoàn Kiếm Lake serves the classic pairing of rice vermicelli soup and savory sticky rice.

This steamed rice crepe specialist has been rolling up its namesake dish for over 30 years.

For true northern-style phở with broth as clear as consommé, hunt for this restaurant hidden within a residential home.

Home to the world's largest collection of ancient Champa's sculptural works, featuring many Hindu and Buddhist deities.

This candy-pink cathedral of Da Nang is also known as the Chicken Church.

Perhaps the only one of its kind, the nearly-forgotten site once held mortal (and rigged) gladiatorial games between tigers and imperial war elephants.

For a taste of Vietnamese gastropub culture, look no further than this convivial seafood joint that stays open till midnight.

Vietnam’s everyman “broken rice” dish is given one major upgrade at this humble institution.