This Chinese museum proves that it's a watermelon world, we're all just living in it.

A progressive LGBTQ hub offers dancing, HIV testing, art, and more.

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

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

This smaller cousin of the Forbidden City has gone from ancestral sacrifice to tourist's whispers.

Home to over 200,000 artifacts, this museum attempts to guide visitors through the ancient history of Beijing and Imperial China.

This probably wasn't what Mao had in mind.

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

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

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

A son-and-daughter meat market, hawked by mom and dad.

China's most famous acrobatics act.

An out-of-place slice of France, smack in the middle of Shanghai.

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

The former home of France's controversial pop maestro is almost completely covered in ever-changing tributes and graffiti.

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the century.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.