Places aemem Wants to Go

Where the Great Wall of China meets the sea.

Snow-capped peaks, colorful waterfalls and stunning vistas on the edge of the Himalayas.

A complex and beautiful system of rice terraces covers a million acres over the mountains.

This Tang Dynasty behemoth is the biggest Buddha in the world.

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

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

Not one, not two, but three natural bridges remain in this captivating spot post-sinkhole.

Mirrored floors and arched shelves create the illusion of an infinite tunnel of books.

270 million year-old forest of stone.

For those with no fear of heights: a skywalk 4,700 feet up on a Chinese mountain.

This psychedelic tourist trap is a leisurely descent into madness.

A canvas of crops grow from vibrant red soil in this terraced farmland.

These layered sandstone mountains in China look like they are made of pressed crayons.

Intensely colorful calcite pools in Southern China.

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

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

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

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

A part of the world's largest marsh seems to be growing bright red Martian grass.

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

Bombed and burned, this monument represents the often controversial ties between Vietnam and Cambodia.

The largest mosque in Cambodia was built to unite the country's Muslim community but soon sparked division and controversy instead.

Though it was originally dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva, Baphuon was converted to a Buddhist temple in the 15th century, complete with a massive hidden statue.

The river depicted in the antiwar film 'Apocalypse Now' was likely based on this Mekong tributary.