The western-most fortress on the Great Wall of China has gone from a strategic stronghold to a kitschy tourist carnival.

Monks turned this mountain into a temple by digging grottoes, tunnels, and a huge pagoda-like hall.

The highest monastery in the world operates a tiny guesthouse with doors open to all.

Stretching almost 2,000 feet, this painting is one of the longest pieces of Buddhist artwork in the world.

Hundreds of caves filled with thousands of centuries-old statues and murals.

The world’s tallest outdoor lift stretches along the stone pillars that inspired the floating mountains in the movie “Avatar.”

The once highest point in China blends symbolic design with a kick of adrenaline.

The tiny statues form China's only known terracotta army from the Han dynasty.

A lush desert oasis in the shape of a narrow crescent.

A harrowing trail up a mile-high mountain.

Rock-cut caves and 7,000 Buddhist sculptures carved into the nearly sheer face of a sandstone mountain.

Ming Dynasty necropolis raided during the Cultural Revolution.

Snow-capped peaks, colorful waterfalls and stunning vistas on the edge of the Himalayas.

This Tang Dynasty behemoth is the biggest Buddha in the world.

The ancient settlement attracts tourists from all over looking to learn about the Chinese vision of the afterlife.

The latest in a series of long glass bridges suspended at terrifying heights.

270 million year-old forest of stone.

For those with no fear of heights: a skywalk 4,700 feet up on a Chinese mountain.

These layered sandstone mountains in China look like they are made of pressed crayons.

999 stairs lead visitors through a massive hole in a mountain known as the Gateway to Heaven.

Intensely colorful calcite pools in Southern China.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

This vertical pinnacle in China was the inspiration for the floating mountains in the movie “Avatar.”

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.