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

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

Paiwanese restaurant run by native indigenous Taiwanese singer songwriter, and home to a DIY arts-and-crafts folk garden.

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 attraction is part anthropological journey and part amusement park.

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.

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

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

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

A taxidermied stork with an arrow through its neck proved that birds migrate.

The Polish capital has had a deep connection to its guardian mermaid for almost a millennium now.

One of the world's largest collections of medieval religious art.

This biographical museum honors the groundbreaking scientist at her birthplace in Warsaw.

An eerie ship cemetery with gunfire as a soundtrack.

This jar honors the role that pottery has played in this Tunisian village over the past millennia.

Despite the name, this unusual palace in rural Tunisia never belonged to an Italian dictator.

An awesome blend of traditional architecture and street art.

This 19th-century church was built for Sicilian immigrants, survived World War II, and today stands on a landfill.

The northernmost point of continental Africa—or is it?

Geothermal resources are cooled in this oddly-shaped structure before being used for irrigation

A superb Paleo-Christian baptismal pool is preserved among the ruins of ancient Sufetula.

A tribute to the man who lit himself on fire and ushered in the Tunisian Revolution.