Places flblom Wants to Go

A palatial horse museum outside Shanghai is home to the most pampered horses in the world.

In its continuing quest to recreate famous parts of the world in miniature, China now has its own ghost Paris.

China's monumental dinosaur museum featuring an open dig site.

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

Stretching almost 2,000 feet, this painting is one of the longest pieces of Buddhist artwork in the world.

China's mysterious record-setting sleeping Buddha.

This quiet area of Yunnan Province annually transforms into an unbelievable sea of yellow flowers.

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

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

The largest statue in the world towers at 420 feet high atop another 66 feet of pedestal.

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

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

Described as "the world's most blinging pool."

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

The largest dinosaurs in the world, kissing above the highway.

Jurassic theme park in the small town of Erlian.

This short pedestrian span is also known as the "Fairy Walking Bridge" because it looks almost magical.

Where the Great Wall of China meets the sea.

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

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

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

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

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

This psychedelic tourist trap is a leisurely descent into madness.