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If you drive along Taiwan’s northern coast, past the fishing boats and misty cliffs, you suddenly stumble upon something that looks completely out of place: a cluster of yellow, white, and orange flying saucers scattered across the shore. This is Wanli UFO Village, one of the strangest neighborhoods in Asia—a retro-futuristic graveyard where some people still live among abandoned space pods. Wanli’s story begins in the late 1970s, when Taiwan was dreaming big. Developers wanted to build a modern seaside resort, something bold and iconic that would attract wealthy tourists and foreign visitors. Their inspiration came from the Futuro and Venturo houses designed by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen—circular, prefabricated fiberglass capsules with porthole windows, the perfect embodiment of “the future” as imagined during the Space Age. These weren’t just vacation homes; they were meant to be symbols of progress. But the resort never took off. Construction slowed as the economy shifted, development stalled, and the dream of a glossy, Jetsons-like haven fizzled out. The project gradually slipped into neglect, and the once-shiny UFO homes began to fade under the harsh sea air. Paint peeled, metal rusted, and empty circular windows stared out at the coastline like abandoned starship portals. And then something unusual happened. While most of the structures fell into disrepair, a handful of residents moved in—ordinary people who turned leftover space pods into everyday homes. Imagine a surreal mix: laundry hanging outside a UFO door; scooters parked beside a capsule; a luxury car gleaming next to a windowless fibreglass dome. Wanli became a place where the future that never arrived coexists with the quiet routine of coastal life. Explorers describe wandering through the village as stepping into an alternate timeline: rows of UFO pods, some cracked open or half-collapsed, others meticulously cared for; algae creeping along rounded walls; stray dogs sleeping under the shadows of these faded sci-fi shelters. It’s part ruin, part neighborhood, part open-air museum of 1970s optimism. There are no official tours, no gates, and no glossy brochures. Wanli survives simply because it refuses to die—a strange, atmospheric pocket of Taiwanese history. While many of the capsules are empty, a few are genuinely lived in, though the residents keep to themselves, and visitors are expected to be respectful. The site is safe to walk around, but it’s not a tourist attraction in the conventional sense: it’s a living ghost town of the future. Today, Wanli UFO Village stands as a mesmerizing relic of retro-futurism—one of the last substantial collections of Futuro and Venturo houses in the world. It’s a place where you can literally stand inside a 1970s vision of tomorrow and feel how fragile, ambitious, and wildly imaginative that era was.