Home to around 40 different species, this forest was also the setting for "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon."

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

An exquisite example of Uyghur Islamic architecture.

Every dish at this restaurant claims to have a health benefit.

350-foot-high emperor faces in China's Yellow River valley.

An ancient fortification lives on in this Chinese city.

China's biggest e-waste village.

This film studio and amusement park is considered one of the greatest filming locations in China.

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

A museum and memorial built amid the rubble of a town obliterated by nature.

One of the word's deepest gorges is also tied to a fantastic legend.

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

These excavated burials from the Tarim Basin are wrapped in mystery.

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

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

Man-made waterfall is the tallest in Mainland China.

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

With former lives as a bomb shelter and government parking lot, this shop is one of China’s most extraordinary locales for book-lovers.

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

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

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

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

One of the world's largest malls has been almost completely empty since its opening.

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