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This supermarket in Shanghai appears to be a typical Chinese convenience store, but all of the bottles are empty and all the containers are filled with nothing but air.

The home where the first Premier of the People's Republic of China worked and lived.

Lifelike statue of the Chinese philosopher in the bathtub.

The powerful party began with a secret meeting in this shikumen in 1921.

The birthplace of modern China.

One of the largest, grandest imperial mausoleums was built as the founder of the Ming Dynasty's final resting place.

Inside this museum is an ongoing excavation of an ancient shipwreck.

This Cold War–era underground city includes offices for Mao Zedong and Lin Biao.

This tunnel looks like a sliver of Shanghai that's stuck in the past.

A wall within the institution displays the names of 13,000 Jews who took refuge in the city during World War II.

A Chinese mining company has created the world's first cloned village in this perfect recreation of an Austrian town.

These mountain hot springs have seen power struggles, doomed romances, and a generalissimo's attempted escape from mutiny.

Hundreds of large Russian nesting dolls decorate this square, and the largest is a functioning hotel.

A KFC honors an eighth-century Chinese poet with holograms and verse.

This top secret Chinese military megaproject is the world’s largest human-made tunnel structure.

Walled family complexes in Southern China.

A fantastic assortment of China's finest and most disturbing wares.

This aquarium has almost as many world records as it does fish.

A giant scale model giving a sneak peek at what urban planners see for Shanghai by 2020.

This Tibetan monastery has survived multiple attacks and is also a sky burial site.

Thanks to the building of a life-giving reservoir, part of the Great Wall of China is now a dive site.

130 replicas of world wonders squeezed into just 118 acres of space.

The highest monastery in the world operates a tiny guesthouse with doors open to all.

An impactful museum ensures notorious war crimes disguised as "medical experimentation" won't soon be forgotten.