Places n77u Wants to Go

Step into this whimsical art installation based on a popular picture book.

A museum about rituals, ghosts, and demons from around Asia, set in the middle of the peaceful Jiufen.

Down-home Arkansas comfort food comes with a side of American pop culture kitsch.

Eat green onion ice cream and other allium-centric treats at this unusual museum.

A 100-year-old Japanese command center is now a unique underground university walkway with periodic exhibits.

An antiquated aquarium housed in a converted government anti-nuclear bunker.

A small museum dedicated to one of the most popular fish in Taiwanese cuisine.

A monument to placate the spirits of an ancient forest.

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

The first miniatures museum in Asia contains all sorts of itsy-bitsy wonders, including the world's smallest working television.

An imperial art museum offers edible versions of its most treasured displays in an on-site fine-dining restaurant.

A festival where people vie to be bombarded by exploding clusters of fireworks.

Hakka-style teahouse where everybody grinds their own tea.

The wartime boat shelter now doubles as an underground concert hall where musicians play on rafts along the waterway.

This former factory turned private museum contains surreal and creepy artwork created by Robert Y.

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

The tangled roots of a giant banyan tree have fully reclaimed the ruins of this abandoned warehouse.

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.

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

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

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

A former Latvian headquarters of the brutal KGB secret police is now open as a grim reminder of their atrocities.

A narrow strip of land is home to the tallest migrating dunes in Europe.