The Old City in Taipei at 04h00.  Really spooky.

Just crossing the street is dangerous where I am.. Nobody here adheres to driving rules, if there are any.

  Whichever bar is closest to hand, i'm problematic with a beer in me.

New York.

The footpath's here are the most dangerous places in China as you dodge cars, electric bikes, scooters, bicycles, Chinese pedestrians who are not aware that there is anybody else walking there, old folk walking backwards, old folk doing stretching exercises, old folk with fake swords practising kung fu, spit, urine and of course the broken paving, the exposed manholes and lately, great piles of snow dumped there by the street cleaners!!

walking back to my accommodation at night. There is no lighting and the silent electric bikes drive around with no lights on.

The way to the bathroom in the midnight when electricity is gone .......

I got a lift from a dude who had just gotten his new car the day before. This was in 2009, it was a Chinese designed car, it had curtains in all windows except front, didn't have rearseat seat belts at all. It was also the guys second day as a driver and he was not used to laowei because a significant amount of driving time he was turning most of his body back to face me when he was talking to me. 

Turpan (aka Turufan) this summer was quite an experience
  * Moving out or in the city required several stops at check-points with dudes with automatic rifles, shotguns and what not looking at our papers. Soldiers behind big concrete blocks and steel grids, rifle in hand ready for a shoutout.
  * Inside the city, Han militias (definitely not police forces or army personnel) patrolling with huge sticks in hand. The kind of stick that break a knee in one blow.
  * Walking a bit outside the city, we see a police car sneaking in a small street, jumping from an other street, stop, snatching a guy who tried to run. In 2 seconds, the police cornered the guy and threw in the car.
  * Patrols of armored trucks with guys in light armor and rifles.
  * The tension and the angry look when we stopped to eat some interesting food in a lone village outside the town. The angry look was directed at my (Han) wife.
  * Abandoned syringes in an Uighur district

  * Propaganda painted on the walls here and there (explaining that being a peaceful farmer selling his grape to the gouv. and sending the kids to school will make for a bright tomorrow), complete with soft voice in Uighur from speakers in the villages out of town.

 Believe it or not, we saw wonderful landscapes, enjoyed great food there.

Well I was robbed at knife point once, but while that was a dangerous moment I still don't regarded the whole place as dangerous. Closest I came to death was nearly falling through a massive hole in a glacier because the guides we were with forgot we didn't know where the hole was.

On campus at the high School In Tai'an.  People in cars drive like a bat out of hell while 10,000 students are walking around. The drivers are not students bet their wealthy parents.

Riding downhill at high speed, icy wind chilling the head and tearing up the eyes and trying to dodge open man holes that give no indication that they are there.  Talk about dangerous!  The people responsible for these must be soooooo stupid.

And as I'm in Xinjiang, tip toeing around the ethnic tension.  Lots of people fear what's going to happen.

Opting to eat out virtually every day.  Chinese food is very unhealthy, not to mention boring and repetitive.  Thankfully the Uyghir food offers an alternative.

Drinking dangerous levels of beer can't be that safe either.