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

An collection of Chinese propaganda posters from 1949 to 1979.

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

This massive neon wheel is the only one of its kind to be built over a bridge.

A clay house decorated with ceramic chips in Tianjin.

This vertical pinnacle in China was the inspiration for the floating mountains in the movie “Avatar.”

A harrowing trail up a mile-high mountain.

The Avenue of Mausolea is a series of grand palatial tombs.

This "tower of death" has acted as an observatory, a religious hub, and an executioner's lair.

This cavernous swimming spot doubles as a home to the largest known colony of bats in Central Asia.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

A dictator's gold statue once rotated to face the sun on a 75-meter high marble tower.

Sumptous memorial to a controversial independence.

A huge monument to a bizarre book written by Turkmenistan’s longstanding dictator.

If you want to get married in the White Marble City of Ashgabat, you should do it in this surreal disco ball building.

The former Nazi Germany concentration camp stands as a museum to remember this dark chapter in European history.

An underground city of salt.

These rare statues are one of the few remaining material witnesses to Old Prussian culture.

A huge wooden clock that is so beautiful its creator was forcibly blinded.

These mechanical goats first battled it out in the year 1551, all because of an overcooked deer.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.

Medicinal spa created from the mineral-rich runoff of a geothermal power plant

This eye-popping Icelandic crater lake is surrounded by red volcanic rock.

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.