The birthplace of modern China.

A prestigious learning institute of old Shanghai.

The powerful party began with a secret meeting in this shikumen in 1921.

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

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

This tunnel looks like a sliver of Shanghai that's stuck in the past.

A wall within the institution displays the names of 13,000 Jews who took refuge in the city during World War II.

This bar is home to what's likely the oldest living jazz band in the world.

This ratty natural history collection is a charming relic among a city rushing into modernity.

This former textile district now is now a thriving center for contemporary Chinese art.

A giant scale model giving a sneak peek at what urban planners see for Shanghai by 2020.

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

An out-of-place slice of France, smack in the middle of Shanghai.

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 original Mason-Dixon line cairn placed in the 1760s was put in the wrong location because of the gravitational pull of the Allegheny Mountains.

This public park was the site of the largest civilian disaster of the Civil War.

Pennsylvania's own Roswell-style UFO mystery.

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

This little museum in the town where zombies were born celebrates the living dead.

With 3,000 bikes on display, the world's largest bicycle museum includes some famous rarities.

The heroic sled dog of the 1925 serum run is preserved in taxidermy.

This spectacular public market has got meat, fish, vegetables, baked goods, and enough kielbasa for a lifetime.