Places ASocialNomad Wants to Go

Thousands of locks professing undying devotion line the metal chains of Lotus Peak.

A cliff-hanging restaurant.

Enormous burial mounds of ancient emperors.

Forgotten German bunkers in China create a sharp cultural contrast.

Why walk on this historical site when you can zoom down instead?

At nearly 1,000 feet long, this astonishing glass suspension bridge is one of the longest in the world.

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

This ancient Chinese observatory still contains early astronomy technology.

Unique geological formations in China, featuring some suggestive shapes.

China's very own Atlantis is an ornate dynastic city resting at the bottom of a lake.

Hidden behind musical flora and forgotten for over a thousand years, this cave is now a neon dream.

Ming Dynasty necropolis raided during the Cultural Revolution.

Beijing's World Park offers the excitement of international sites without the travel.

Discovered after draining a local pond, these ancient man-made caves are still a complete mystery.

This short pedestrian span is also known as the "Fairy Walking Bridge" because it looks almost magical.

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

Rock-cut caves and 7,000 Buddhist sculptures carved into the nearly sheer face of a sandstone mountain.

Rivers of cattle blood gone, a strange Escheresque building remains, the last of its kind.

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

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

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

A tunnel dug through the side of a mountain by hand provides convenient yet death-defying access to a small village in China.

The world's longest outdoor escalator takes visitors to the top of China's largest dam and is also shaped like a dragon.

The tallest stationary dunes on Earth also happen to sing.