Thousands of effigies of Buddha watch from caves set high above a legendary river, plus whiskey.

Believed to have once stored either human remains or rice wine, thousands of mysterious stone jars lie in ruin.

More than 200 statues filled with cryptic symbols give this park spot an aura of horror vacui fantasy.

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

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

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.

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

A monument to placate the spirits of an ancient forest.

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

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

The longest skywalk in Taiwan.

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

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

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

A small alleyway lined with locally drawn scenes of nostalgic anime and cartoon characters.

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

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

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

This attraction is part anthropological journey and part amusement park.

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

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.

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