Relics of Australia's convict past, and a modern scene of unimaginable horror.

Granite rocks that concentrate waves into powerful jets.

This controversial museum includes such detested exhibits as a chocolate suicide bomber and fecal-smelling digestion machine.

The world's longest outdoor covered escalator system transports commuters through Hong Kong's hilly terrain.

A serene space tucked amid the skyscrapers of Hong Kong's bustling financial district.

Teeming with illegal goods and services, this towering maze of vice is also a popular tourist accommodation.

Climb to the top of the world's largest seated bronze Buddha.

A wall within the institution displays the names of 13,000 Jews who took refuge in the city during World War II.

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

An collection of Chinese propaganda posters from 1949 to 1979.

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

A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.

Massive series of 45 caves and over 51,000 sculptures carved from cliffsides in China.

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

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 field of tiny caves that mark this Chinese cliffside are each their own historic Buddhist temple.

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

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

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

The burial grounds of a Chinese eunuch who served his way into the highest levels of Imperial government.

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

The embalmed remains of the communist leader lie within a custom crystal coffin.

This probably wasn't what Mao had in mind.