Places Marina Wang Wants to Go

Sleep snuggled in a sphere suspended atop the forest canopy of Vancouver Island.

Unusual outdoor collection of sculptures.

China's biggest e-waste village.

One of the word's deepest gorges is also tied to a fantastic legend.

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

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

The world’s tallest outdoor lift stretches along the stone pillars that inspired the floating mountains in the movie “Avatar.”

A complex and beautiful system of rice terraces covers a million acres over the mountains.

270 million year-old forest of stone.

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

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.

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

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

This temple is home to a group of Buddha statues made from thousands of bones and ashes of the deceased.

Rice balls symbolize fate and relationship at this adorable shrine, which was once dedicated to the Buddhist Devil.

Exploring crime and punishment in feudal and pre-modern Japan.

A Buddhist temple on an artificial island that houses a monument to the fugu fish.

Take a few seconds to look at this abandoned, art-filled station as you pass by on the subway to Ueno.

The 650 red and white Japanese plum trees of this Tokyo neighborhood blossom each spring.

A glimpse into life in 1830s Tokyo, back during the heyday of the Tokugawa shogunate.

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

Nestled between the Sicao Green Tunnel and Dazhong Temple, an antiquated exhibition hall boasts the complete skeletons of mother and child sperm whales.

The world's largest clay lick, where parrots gather to snack.