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This film studio and amusement park is considered one of the greatest filming locations in China.

Monks turned this mountain into a temple by digging grottoes, tunnels, and a huge pagoda-like hall.

It took an artist 20 years to create this sprawling sculpture garden honoring the area's ancient inhabitants.

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

A progressive LGBTQ hub offers dancing, HIV testing, art, and more.

At nearly 1,000 feet long, this astonishing glass suspension bridge is one of the longest in the world.

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

This probably wasn't what Mao had in mind.

A tunnel dug through the side of a mountain by hand provides convenient yet death-defying access to a small village in China.

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

Natural arch offers panoramic views of Yangshuo's karst hills.

Snow-capped peaks, colorful waterfalls and stunning vistas on the edge of the Himalayas.

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.

Mirrored floors and arched shelves create the illusion of an infinite tunnel of books.

270 million year-old forest of stone.

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

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

A part of the world's largest marsh seems to be growing bright red Martian grass.

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

These otherworldly formations were shaped over millions of years by the forces of nature.

Planned as the world’s first zero-carbon city, it had lofty ideals—but is only 5 percent completed and aiming for 50 percent carbon-neutral.