New Taipei City 新北市

Beneath New Taipei’s Linkou New Town lies a 10,000-year-old skull, a hidden kamikaze airfield, a 1968 air disaster, and a temple that outlasted an empire.

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The Ketagalan language died here. Taiwan’s most famous ruin stood here. A president was born here. Sanzhi holds five hundred years of history that never quite finished.