Places markbradford Wants to Go

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

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

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

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

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

This Tang Dynasty behemoth is the biggest Buddha in the world.

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

Not one, not two, but three natural bridges remain in this captivating spot post-sinkhole.

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

A collection of cafes and shops all crafted from recycled storage containers.

A nostalgic restaurant evokes life in Taiwan from the 1940s to the 1970s.

A waterfall runs right through the middle of this Taiwanese shrine to the hundreds of workers killed while building a nearby highway.

An extraordinary natural landscape of mountains, waterfalls, and rocky cliffs riddled with tunnels.

Sitting beneath an unremarkable residential building is a museum devoted to classic Pinball.

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

A monument to the two U.S. officers killed by North Korean troops while trying to trim a poplar tree.

Its humdrum facade only adds to its electrifying appeal: a rooftop with panoramic views of a shapeshifting metropolis.

South Korea's largely symbolic, barely used gateway to the North.

A thriving surf community exists in relative remoteness along the former boundary between North and South Korea.

The site of many tense prisoner exchanges across the Military Demarcation Line between North and South Korea.

Buy your fish and have it cooked to order in this bustling, eight-floor seafood market.

A Korean village where times stands still.

To enter the lower hall of this temple, you must first walk through a dragon.

The abandoned hospital whose elaborate ghost stories cover up the dirty truth - an uneventful sanitation issue and other mundane reasons for its demise.