Places Madeleine Wants to Go

No one knows who's responsible for decorating this tunnel with stuffed animals, but the people love it enough to protest their removal.

It's always game time at Stockholm's only museum devoted solely to video games.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

Thanks to a bit of wordplay, seven auspicious stone cats guard this ancient canalside street.

This under-visited temple is nestled within one of Shanghai's traditional shikumen-style residential blocks.

A small gallery and shop dedicated to an ancient style of hand-printed textile.

The largest traditional Chinese medicine market in the world sells ingredients that may make you squirm.

Natives of this mud-brick desert village use an ancient irrigation system to grow sweet, seedless grapes.

A KFC honors an eighth-century Chinese poet with holograms and verse.

A Chinese mining company has created the world's first cloned village in this perfect recreation of an Austrian town.

China's mysterious record-setting sleeping Buddha.

Hundreds of caves filled with thousands of centuries-old statues and murals.

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.

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.

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

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

Enormous burial mounds of ancient emperors.

China’s breathtaking futuristic library is lined floor to ceiling with fake books.

Explore this massive series of 45 caves and over 51,000 sculptures carved from cliffsides in China.

This incredible Chinese theme park may be the largest bootleg in history.

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

Ming Dynasty necropolis raided during the Cultural Revolution.