A studio devoted to keeping hundreds of unique Chinese arts alive.

The once highest point in China blends symbolic design with a kick of adrenaline.

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.

Beijing's World Park offers the excitement of international sites without the travel.

An collection of Chinese propaganda posters from 1949 to 1979.

Rivers of cattle blood gone, a strange Escheresque building remains, the last of its kind.

This probably wasn't what Mao had in mind.

The world's first hotel built in an abandoned water-filled quarry.

This psychedelic tourist trap is a leisurely descent into madness.

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

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.

Some North Carolina Cherokee have been keeping their history alive for decades with a single play.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

Over 20,000 sets of spice shakers reveal the surprisingly telling history of our most basic spices.

While knives are the main feature in this store, visitors will also find dinosaur bones and meteorites.

The highest point in Virginia can only be reached by passing through ponies and flowers.

Every week, a festive public jam session breaks out in downtown Asheville.

The fine fabric handwoven at Biltmore Industries was once coveted around the world.

A 300-yard long natural tunnel runs through a ridge deep in the Appalachian Mountains.