Lifelike statue of the Chinese philosopher in the bathtub.

Beijing's expansive subterranean hiding spot now crumbles away as a tourist destination.

The world's longest outdoor escalator takes visitors to the top of China's largest dam and is also shaped like a dragon.

Forgotten for decades, the first medical school built in Communist China is full of surprises today.

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

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

This bar is home to what's likely the oldest living jazz band in the world.

This aquarium has almost as many world records as it does fish.

An impactful museum ensures notorious war crimes disguised as "medical experimentation" won't soon be forgotten.

The largest statue in the world towers at 420 feet high atop another 66 feet of pedestal.

It took an artist 20 years to create this sprawling sculpture garden honoring the area's ancient inhabitants.

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

Hidden behind musical flora and forgotten for over a thousand years, this cave is now a neon dream.

This sensational Chinese temple walks visitors through the 76 weird departments of the afterlife.

Beijing's World Park offers the excitement of international sites without the travel.

Discovered after draining a local pond, these ancient man-made caves are still a complete mystery.

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

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

Why walk on this historical site when you can zoom down instead?

This psychedelic tourist trap is a leisurely descent into madness.

A museum dedicated to the Spanish occult in a town that was terrorized by the Inquisition.

Live a night as a Byzantine King, with a minibar and private jacuzzi.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.