Places ruanodowd Wants to Go

The family compound and final resting place for the philosopher, Confucius, and over 100,000 of his descendants.

Forgotten German bunkers in China create a sharp cultural contrast.

A sacred mountaintop temple offers a fine cup of tea to visitors who can survive the journey.

Where the Great Wall of China meets the sea.

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

This sensational Chinese temple walks visitors through the 76 weird departments of the afterlife.

A studio devoted to keeping hundreds of unique Chinese arts alive.

A chinese farmer builds robots from scrap.

A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.

Explore this massive series of 45 caves and over 51,000 sculptures carved from cliffsides in China.

The western-most fortress on the Great Wall of China has gone from a strategic stronghold to a kitschy tourist carnival.

It seems that the residents of of this megalopolis suddenly vanished, but they were never actually there.

The largest dinosaurs in the world, kissing above the highway.

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