Places pleiades Wants to Go

Climb to the top of the world's largest seated bronze Buddha.

Teeming with illegal goods and services, this towering maze of vice is also a popular tourist accommodation.

In Hong Kong, a fairytale flower tunnel is hidden within the gardens of a public housing complex.

This hulking behemoth is actually five interconnected towers built in the 1960s.

The residence of a Taiwanese literary scholar sits down an alleyway adorned with depictions of snails.

Diners have been slurping 'fool's noodles' at this shop for more than 70 years.

A monument to placate the spirits of an ancient forest.

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

Taiwan’s iconic dish is in peak form here.

Hakka-style teahouse where everybody grinds their own tea.

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

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

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

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

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.

First established in 741, this is one of the oldest Taoist temples in China.

This Tibetan and Naxi village's Honey Rose wine bears the mark of 19th-century French missionaries.

Once an imperial lake garden, anyone can now visit this city park.

Home to around 40 different species, this forest was also the setting for "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon."

An ancient fortification lives on in this Chinese city.

A prestigious learning institute of old Shanghai.