Places deriverative Wants to Go

Count the statues to gain insight into your future from Buddhist disciples.

This once-booming oil city is now a relic of the region's industrial past.

Though these human-made islands were constructed as an escape for the wealthy, they rarely see many visitors.

The real Buddhist temple where the fictional Kwai Chang Kaine (David Carradine) trained in TV's 'Kung Fu' series.

First established in 741, this is one of the oldest Taoist temples in China.

A hidden Buddhist gem accessible only by boat.

A temple complex has existed on this site since the third century.

Visitors take revenge upon the statue of a traitor made to kneel at the tomb of his enemy.

You can still find your way around Suzhou with this 800-year-old stone map.

A lake that borders Kazakhstan and Russia allegedly harbors the giant "Terror Trout" or "Chinese Nessie."

A marker in suburban Hangzhou shows the intersection of the 30th parallel north and the 120th meridian east.

This majestic twelve-story wooden pagoda built into the side of a divine hill was saved from the Three Gorges Dam.

Wander through a subtropical island rich with 19th-century colonial architecture, grand pianos, and the reassurance that you won't encounter automobiles.

Buy wholesale almost anything imaginable at what may be the world’s largest small-commodities market.

A pilgrimage around a forbidden peak sacred to four faiths.

A massive underground palace containing a colossal reclining Buddha statue and the only Buddha parietal bone relic in the world.

A life-sized imperial army, buried in battle formation, has stood underground for over 2,000 years—built not for war, but for eternity.

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

Two alleyways in Suzhou Old Town offer a slice of life in Shanghai's French Concession, and served as a private home-away-from-home for one of 1920s Shanghai’s most infamous gangsters

A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.

A former French military respite turned jungle tourism hotspot.

Khmer Rouge's high security prison.

Hoax, mistake, or evidence of dinosaurs in human times?

Built by King Norodom to honor his late father.