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

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

Taiwan's first stone fortress is also the best preserved Qing Dynasty-era city on the island.

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.

High rises built to house displaced military personnel and their families form a unique cylindrical shape.

A cornucopia of gargoyles adorns the oldest portion of Oxford’s Magdalen College.

This unique blend of Japanese and Western architecture provides a glimpse into the lives of the Japanese elites who once ruled Taiwan.

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

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

A Japanese colonial-era hot springs hotel that has transformed into an art museum.

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

Behind a 300-year-old temple hides a small tomb said to house the bones of 17th-century Dutch soldiers.

Nestled between the Sicao Green Tunnel and Dazhong Temple, an antiquated exhibition hall boasts the complete skeletons of mother and child sperm whales.

A museum commemorates what was once the largest freight station in Taiwan.

On Green Island, a rock resembling the ancient Chinese sage gazes contemplatively out at sea.

The ruins of a prehistoric village hide on a remote Taiwanese island.

The first Confucian temple in Taiwan, founded by the son of a pirate lord, doubled as the island's first state-sponsored school.

Hidden in a cave on a small Taiwanese island, a stalagmite reported to look like the bodhisattva Guanyin.

An American lighthouse stands on an island cliffside in Taiwan.

On the roof of the oldest department store in Tainan stands a Shinto shrine dating back to the 1930s.

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

A museum cafe showcases Native American dishes and indigenous ingredients from across the Western Hemisphere.

America's first public mental health facility.

Affectionately known as "Lord Bot," this historic statue has a cult social media following and rightly claims to be “the most metal inhabitant of the Wren Yard.”