Places ERuler39 Wants to Go

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

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

The world's largest statue of Mao Zedong looks out over the city where he discovered Communism.

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

These tiny statues form a terracotta army from China's Han dynasty.

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

This ancient Chinese observatory still contains early astronomy technology.

Home to over 200,000 artifacts, this museum attempts to guide visitors through the ancient history of Beijing and Imperial China.

This sensational Chinese temple walks visitors through the 76 weird departments of the afterlife.

Discovered after draining a local pond, these ancient man-made caves are still a complete mystery.

This terrifying glass bridge on the side of a mountain cracks as you step on it.

An collection of Chinese propaganda posters from 1949 to 1979.

Rock-cut caves and 7,000 Buddhist sculptures carved into the nearly sheer face of a sandstone mountain.

Ming Dynasty necropolis raided during the Cultural Revolution.

Where the Great Wall of China meets the sea.

This Tang Dynasty behemoth is the biggest Buddha in the world.

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

Why walk on this historical site when you can zoom down instead?

These layered sandstone mountains in China look like they are made of pressed crayons.

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.

A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.

This naval gun is fired every day at noon, an odd timekeeping tradition the origin of which is local legend.

Taoism, Buddhist and Confucianism are all represented in this temple that claims to answer anyone's wishes.