Places paya Wants to Go

Memorial to the father of the Republic of China.

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

Hakka-style teahouse where everybody grinds their own tea.

A waste incinerator with a restaurant on its chimney.

Only through deep darkness and tragedy did this elaborate royal palace become a sacred temple.

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

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

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

Visit this church that's shaped like a giant glass pump either to cater to women or to reference a tragic local tale. Or both.

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.

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

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

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