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

The once highest point in China blends symbolic design with a kick of adrenaline.

The field of tiny caves that mark this Chinese cliffside are each their own historic Buddhist temple.

A harrowing trail up a mile-high mountain.

Walled family complexes in Southern China.

One of the word's deepest gorges is also tied to a fantastic legend.

This quiet area of Yunnan Province annually transforms into an unbelievable sea of yellow flowers.

270 million year-old forest of stone.

The memorial gravesite of the young composer of China's national anthem.

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

A self-made museum in Queens, New York continues to display the work of a sculptor known for paving his own way.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

Nassau Hall has served as army barracks, a museum, and played a key role in the American Revolution.

A bronze monument to the infamous radio broadcast in the real New Jersey town where the fictional Martians crash-landed.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.

The only working large-scale tea plantation in the United States.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.