Movie buffs will love this Taiwanese director’s ode to film history.

A collection of old neon signs from all over Poland line a secluded courtyard.

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

This extensive collection covers thousands of years of Polish military history.

Waste incinerator with a restaurant on its chimney.

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

Dine on Hakka dishes at a dreamy cottage nestled in the heart of Taipei.

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

Taiwan’s iconic dish is in peak form here.

A striking public sculpture representing the period of martial law in Communist Poland.

This 16th-century pole was once used in brutal public executions.

The traditional Polish croissant, folded 81 times into the shape of a horseshoe, is a legally protected cultural treat.

An underground city beneath Krakow's postwar socialist utopia.

A collection of modern and vintage pinball machines housed in the cellar of a 15th-century building.

Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.

St. Mary's features one of the most spectacularly decorated cathedral interiors in all of Europe.

Inside this Krakow church, an explosion of psychedelic color.

This grubby wall is said to be one of the Earth's esoteric energy centers.

Real bones which are said to have belonged to a Polish dragon.

This Polish cave has housed a dragon, a brothel, and an enduring legend.

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

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

A menacing statue of this mythical creature can be seen at the legendary site of the monster's lair.

The giant statue and its model solar system honor the native Pole who declared that the Earth revolves around the Sun.