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Destinations Editor Eric Moya spent a week in Taipei, visiting the Taiwanese capital's national monuments and other popular attractions. Pictured here, guards on duty at the Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall, built in 1972 in honor of the Chinese statesman and founding father of Taiwan.

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Exploring Taipei

Destinations Editor Eric Moya spent a week in Taipei, visiting the Taiwanese capital's national monuments and other popular attractions. Pictured here, guards on duty at the Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall, built in 1972 in honor of the Chinese statesman and founding father of Taiwan.

Destinations Editor Eric Moya spent a week in Taipei, visiting the Taiwanese capital's national monuments and other popular attractions. Pictured here, guards on duty at the Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall, built in 1972 in honor of the Chinese statesman and founding father of Taiwan.

Across town is a larger, similarly Lincoln Memorial-esque monument dedicated to Sun's ally Chiang Kai-shek, Taiwan's president from 1950 to 1975.

The National Revolutionary Martyrs' Shrine, dedicated to 330,000 casualties of wars predating Taiwan's establishment.

The Ximending shopping district, popular with Taipei's youth.

A Ximending statue pays tribute to a common Taipei pastime.

Cooks at the Shilin Night Market, Taipei's largest such market. Surgical masks are a common sight in Taipei, worn by commuters and food service workers alike.

At the Shilin Night Market, the infamous stinky tofu in what's said to be its mildest form: fried with pickled vegetables.

2/28 Peace Memorial Park. An uprising against the Chinese Nationalist Party resulted in the deaths of thousands on Feb. 28, 1947.

The Taipei 2/28 Memorial monument at the park.

Early evening at the Raohe Street Night Market, said to be among the city's oldest.

The 728-ton stabilizing damper at the Taipei 101 tower, which at roughly 1,670 feet once held the title of world's tallest building. The tower's Damper Baby mascot is depicted in a variety of souvenir-ready colors but is seen here in silver.

The view from Taipei 101 on an overcast day.