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

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

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

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

Spanish architects used seized Muslim gravestones to rebuild parts of the fortress.

An archaeological museum squeezed into a narrow 15th-century gate tower accessed only by a spiral staircase.

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

This probably wasn't what Mao had in mind.

Ming Dynasty necropolis raided during the Cultural Revolution.

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

These picturesque Hawaiian falls are home to a rare species of fish that uses a special sucker to climb up cliffs.

Eat burgers beneath gargantuan taxidermy and thousands of dollar bills in Utah's oldest continuously-operating bar.

A six-story treehouse offers spectacular views of New York's Finger Lakes region.

The world's third-largest crystal sphere has sat in the Penn Museum since 1927 with the exception of one outlandish theft.

A trail weaves through the verses of a poem illustrated by stone sculptures inspired by Native American pictographs.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

“Live hard, ride fast, eat pizza” at this joint filled with Evel Knievel memorabilia.

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

Get up close and personal with these majestic fish.

When in Idaho, sleep in a giant potato.

This old selenite mine is dotted with tiny crystals that make it shimmer like it's covered in glitter.

This abandoned artificial island off the coast of New York City is now home to dozens of harbor seals.

A hidden bar inside an ad agency has a deliberately misleading name, so employees can stay late under pretext of paperwork.

Hidden inside one of the world's most well-visited zoos is a secret plaque promising eternal life.