The wartime boat shelter now doubles as an underground concert hall where musicians play on rafts along the waterway.

This temple located on a vertical drop of a rocky mountain houses relics from the Song Dynasty.

Inside this museum is an ongoing excavation of an ancient shipwreck.

This under-visited temple is nestled within one of Shanghai's traditional shikumen-style residential blocks.

This tunnel looks like a sliver of Shanghai that's stuck in the past.

Be careful not to get trampled at this lively two thousand-year-old market.

These mountain hot springs have seen power struggles, doomed romances, and a generalissimo's attempted escape from mutiny.

At 16,627 feet above sea level, this unstaffed station is the highest in the world.

The world's largest ginkgo tree contains a hollow so large a man once lived in it for two years.

This Cold War–era underground city includes offices for Mao Zedong and Lin Biao.

A small gallery and shop dedicated to an ancient style of hand-printed textile.

The so-called "Richest Village In China" is either a model Communist town or a dystopian sham.

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

The largest traditional Chinese medicine market in the world sells ingredients that may make you squirm.

The world's largest natural arch was forgotten for over 50 years after its discovery.

This weekly market in the remote oasis city of Hotan still has the atmosphere of the old Silk Road.

This ratty natural history collection is a charming relic among a city rushing into modernity.

A fantastic assortment of China's finest and most disturbing wares.

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

China's beehive-shaped pyramids house the remains of a lost kingdom.

No one is exactly sure why over a hundred lakes have formed amongst the tallest sand dunes on Earth.

Comprised of thousands of cave temple carvings this cornucopia of ancient Chinese stone art is unrivaled anywhere in the world.

China's mysterious record-setting sleeping Buddha.

This Tibetan monastery has survived multiple attacks and is also a sky burial site.