An ancient jungle temple carved into a rocky overhang of the Dane Soung Plateau.

The birthplace of modern China.

This bridge dates back to the 9th century and allows visitors to walk an ancient path amid modern industrial trappings.

The Chinese have long been excellent at the art of copying, but this epic replica takes the biscuit.

Thanks to a bit of wordplay, seven auspicious stone cats guard this ancient canalside street.

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

An ancient Chinese temple where even the emperor dressed like a farmer in the name of the harvest.

In its continuing quest to recreate famous parts of the world in miniature, China now has its own ghost Paris.

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

A KFC honors an eighth-century Chinese poet with holograms and verse.

Sited in an Inner Mongolian desert are the remnants of an important trade stop along the Silk Road.

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.

Enormous burial mounds of ancient emperors.

One of the world's largest ice festivals dazzles visitors for over a month with radiant sculptures and carvings.

270 million year-old forest of stone.

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

A collection of old steam and diesel locomotives sitting in a fenced-off garden.

Mongolian Buddhists believe this monastery in the Gobi desert to be the center of the world's spiritual energy.

Thousands of artifacts tell Mongolia's military history, from the Bronze Age to the present.

An exceptional assortment of fossils recovered from private collections.

A huge communist-era propaganda monument and mural that offers stunning views of the Mongolian capital.

Enormous statue of the Emperor of the Mongols.

With over 12,000 different species of plants, this botanical garden is Japan's oldest and most diverse.