Museums in China

The home where the first Premier of the People's Republic of China worked and lived.

A replica of the first seismoscope ever invented.

The birthplace of modern China.

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

China has many statues of the general and war god, but none are as epic as this.

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

These tiny statues form a terracotta army from China's Han dynasty.

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

The powerful party began with a secret meeting in this shikumen in 1921.

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

Three floors above a 2,000-year-old royal tomb is a rare collection of ancient porcelain pillows.

A quiet ode to Communist China's propaganda machine, including a newspaper edited by Mao Zedong's own hand.

Stretching almost 2,000 feet, this painting is one of the longest pieces of Buddhist artwork in the world.

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

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.

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