A palatial horse museum outside Shanghai is home to the most pampered horses in the world.

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

A fantastic assortment of China's finest and most disturbing wares.

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

A magical work of architecture where a wind turbine enables monks to levitate.

A lush desert oasis in the shape of a narrow crescent.

Enormous burial mounds of ancient emperors.

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

An collection of Chinese propaganda posters from 1949 to 1979.

This incredible Chinese theme park may be the largest bootleg in history.

This probably wasn't what Mao had in mind.

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

A total of 999 stairs lead visitors through a massive hole in a mountain known as the Gateway to Heaven.

Intensely colorful calcite pools in Southern China.

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

A bisected journey through evolution's history in the heart of Beijing.

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

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

Beijing's version of Disneyland, completely abandoned, mostly destroyed.

The embalmed remains of the communist leader lie within a custom crystal coffin.

An ancient Chinese temple where even the emperor dressed like a farmer in the name of the harvest.

North Korea's massive art and propaganda factory now has an official gallery space in Beijing.

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

Slaughterhouse Five opens its dank doors to fans of Kurt Vonnegut.