Places bfoeldesi Wants to Go

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

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

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

The tallest stationary dunes on Earth also happen to sing.

The ancient settlement attracts tourists from all over looking to learn about the Chinese vision of the afterlife.

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

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

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

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

270 million year-old forest of stone.

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.

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

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

Intensely colorful calcite pools in Southern China.

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.

Ruins of an aerial tramway that ran for only eight years.

One of the only spherical 19th century gas containers left today.

The jaw of one of humankind's earliest ancestors on display at an overlooked geology museum.

This strategic isle was once swapped between empires and almost entirely destroyed in a bomb explosion.

Bring out your dead (saints that have been festooned and bejeweled, so that we can parade them around the town)!

A portable, wooden replica (minus the hyphen) of Hamburg’s iconic crooked coffee shop.

A former Nazi lookout tower with a magnificent view of the Rhineland.