Places stenaavel Wants to Go

A Japanese-era military tunnel is now a psychedelic art exhibit.

At a museum dedicated to the millenia-old rites and art of Buddhism, the Buddha's reputed tooth is held as an object of worship.

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

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

This dragon-shaped sports arena is the world’s largest solar-powered stadium.

Taiwan’s iconic dish is in peak form here.

This former military installation was turned into a discipline center by the Taiwanese Navy.

This densely-packed cluster of buildings was saved from the wrecking ball and turned into an art community.

Air-raid tunnels hidden beneath this opulent hotel provided shelter and an escape route—and one of the world's longest slides.

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

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

A Buddhist temple covered in intricate designs and carvings made out of seashells and pieces of coral.

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

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.

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.

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.

Scattered ruins and a tiny cemetery are all that remain of a failed attempt to colonize the inhospitable Desolate Islands.

French scientists make up the majority of the few humans to occupy this remote island in the extreme southern Indian Ocean.

A brutalist war memorial piercing through the rolling farm landscape.

The Cape of Good Hope is not quite as low as you can go on the African continent, but it's still geographically significant.