Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

This massive neon wheel is the only one of its kind to be built over a bridge.

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

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

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

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

The world’s tallest outdoor lift stretches along the stone pillars that inspired the floating mountains in the movie “Avatar.”

This probably wasn't what Mao had in mind.

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

This vertical pinnacle in China was the inspiration for the floating mountains in the movie “Avatar.”