A labyrinth of clothing, electronics, and other counterfeit items.

China's most famous acrobatics act.

This former textile district now is now a thriving center for contemporary Chinese art.

An collection of Chinese propaganda posters from 1949 to 1979.

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

This supermarket in Shanghai appears to be a typical Chinese convenience store, but all of the bottles are empty and all the containers are filled with nothing but air.

The once highest point in China blends symbolic design with a kick of adrenaline.

A prestigious learning institute of old Shanghai.

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

This psychedelic tourist trap is a leisurely descent into madness.

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

This ratty natural history collection is a charming relic among a city rushing into modernity.

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

Lifelike statue of the Chinese philosopher in the bathtub.

An eerily charming collection of salvaged buildings and curios grown out of a family scrap business.

These phallic stone spires once served as Tolkien's Paths of the Dead.

You may recognize this beautiful grove within Kaitoke Regional Park as location of the house of Elrond.

Inside this faux cave, visitors can learn how some of their favorite fantasy characters were created.

The world's first fully-fenced urban ecosanctuary is a haven for New Zealand's rare and endangered species.

Leave a trinket at this artistic collection of mailboxes.

Anyone wanting to know what a dwarven mine sounds like need only visit the tunnels of this New Zealand artillery compound.

A bronze kitty adorns the grave of the polar explorer who brought the original feline to the Antarctic.

This museum/fur store is devoted to educating guests on how awful opossums can be.

This abandoned fishing settlement may well be the greenest village in the world.