A modern temple with an ancient philosophy.

Derelict airplane bodies serve as both home and income for three Thai families.

From dragonfruit to mangoes to durian this Thailand resort allows guests to stay inside all manner of giant fruit.

Where the father of Persian poetry is laid to rest.

The largest Lenin statue in Central Asia was moved to an empty field rather than being destroyed.

This dark, damp, perilous tunnel is the only passage from north to south Tajikistan.

The largest dam in the world and the site of a potential disaster.

Memorial to the father of the Republic of China.

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

Waste incinerator with a restaurant on its chimney.

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

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

Enormous pendulum helps keep Taiwan's tallest building from swaying.

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

This attraction is part anthropological journey and part amusement park.

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.

A rare pod of derelict midcentury Futuro and Venturo houses lines a semi-abandoned beachfront resort outside Taipei.

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

This Taiwanese promontory is covered in otherworldly hoodoo formations.

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

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.

Only the foundation remains of the rest stop building that was hit by three large tsunami waves, killing 47 visitors.