One of the word's deepest gorges is also tied to a fantastic legend.

The wartime boat shelter now doubles as an underground concert hall where musicians play on rafts along the waterway.

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

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

This theme park presents 5,000 years of Shanghai history and includes a "sunken" exhibition hall.

Man-made waterfall is the tallest in Mainland China.

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

With former lives as a bomb shelter and government parking lot, this shop is one of China’s most extraordinary locales for book-lovers.

Inside this museum is an ongoing excavation of an ancient shipwreck.

At 16,627 feet above sea level, this unstaffed station is the highest in the world.

A wall within the institution displays the names of 13,000 Jews who took refuge in the city during World War II.

These mountain hot springs have seen power struggles, doomed romances, and a generalissimo's attempted escape from mutiny.

One of the world's largest malls has been almost completely empty since its opening.

The world's largest ginkgo tree contains a hollow so large a man once lived in it for two years.

The burial grounds of a Chinese eunuch who served his way into the highest levels of Imperial government.

China's monumental dinosaur museum featuring an open dig site.

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

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

The largest traditional Chinese medicine market in the world sells ingredients that may make you squirm.

The so-called "Richest Village In China" is either a model Communist town or a dystopian sham.

A golden temple atop a sacred mountain, known for its giant effigy of the revered Pu Xian.

Hundreds of large Russian nesting dolls decorate this square, and the largest is a functioning hotel.

A Chinese mining company has created the world's first cloned village in this perfect recreation of an Austrian town.

No one is exactly sure why over a hundred lakes have formed amongst the tallest sand dunes on Earth.