Climb to the top of the world's largest seated bronze Buddha.

The embalmed remains of the communist leader lie within a custom crystal coffin.

This smaller cousin of the Forbidden City has gone from ancestral sacrifice to tourist's whispers.

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

A gift from the Soviet Union in the 1980s, this is the only statue of the Soviet dictator in Southeast Asia.

Twice a day a speeding train passes only inches from the homes of this residential neighborhood.

Ho Chi Minh's perfectly preserved body has been on display here since 1975.

Home of the unusual art of water puppetry, one of Vietnam's oldest curiosities.

The spot where the two men ate together now stands enclosed in glass.

Ha Long Bay's "Cave of Surprises" houses a popular phallic rock formation.

The latest in a series of long glass bridges suspended at terrifying heights.

The world’s tallest outdoor lift stretches along the stone pillars that inspired the floating mountains in the movie “Avatar.”

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

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

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

A recent addition to the Suzhou skyline, heralding the ‘Gateway to the Orient’, is commonly ridiculed for looking like a big pair of trousers

An out-of-place slice of France, smack in the middle of Shanghai.

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

A son-and-daughter meat market, hawked by mom and dad.