Leave the wardrobes and sweets to British schoolchildren, Shanghai's got a Coke machine that leads to booze.

This supermarket in Shanghai appears to be a typical Chinese convenience store, but all of the bottles are empty and all the containers are filled with nothing but air.

A shrine to the missionary who first brought Islam to China.

Though these human-made islands were constructed as an escape for the wealthy, they rarely see many visitors.

A replica of the Statue of Liberty watches over the tomb of 72 Chinese revolutionaries.

Two nearly identical Chinese pagodas stand side by side, along with ancient stone relics.

The world's tallest circular building is loaded with symbolism, but many just see a big donut.

This theme park presents 5,000 years of Shanghai history and includes a "sunken" exhibition hall.

Natives of this mud-brick desert village use an ancient irrigation system to grow sweet, seedless grapes.

This quiet area of Yunnan Province annually transforms into an unbelievable sea of yellow flowers.

A palatial horse museum outside Shanghai is home to the most pampered horses in the world.

An impactful museum ensures notorious war crimes disguised as "medical experimentation" won't soon be forgotten.

An out-of-place slice of France, smack in the middle of Shanghai.

Rivers of cattle blood gone, a strange Escheresque building remains, the last of its kind.

This Chinese museum proves that it's a watermelon world, we're all just living in it.

This ancient Hindu temple is covered in thousands of colorful statues and has a long mythological history.

This otherworldly palace-mausoleum complex is the stuff eternal dreams are made of.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

Carvings in Turkey's Marble Road may have directed ancient Romans to a hidden brothel.

A sixth-century Byzantine cistern hidden below a modern carpet store.