10. National Palace Museum

Here we got our fix of concentric balls, bronze cooking vessels and the infamous jade cabbage. The museum is located just outside the main city, so we had to brave the bus to get there but it was worth it. This museum actually houses a ton of precious artifacts from China- they were sent to Taiwan for safe-keeping during the war with Japan but somehow Taiwan *forgot* to give them back. It's pretty impressive to see art that dates back 2000 years BCE, and we managed to avoid the flood of schoolkids who arrived in the late afternoon. Before we returned to the hotel, we chowed down at what may be Taiwan's 2nd best restaurant... mmm, grey boiled egg and tomato juice sure hits the spot.