Places moonlightpearls Wants to Go

China's monumental dinosaur museum featuring an open dig site.

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

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 Cold War–era underground city includes offices for Mao Zedong and Lin Biao.

An ancient Chinese temple where even the emperor dressed like a farmer in the name of the harvest.

This theme park presents 5,000 years of Shanghai history and includes a "sunken" exhibition hall.

In its continuing quest to recreate famous parts of the world in miniature, China now has its own ghost Paris.

This top secret Chinese military megaproject is the world’s largest human-made tunnel structure.

A chinese farmer builds robots from scrap.

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

A fantastic assortment of China's finest and most disturbing wares.

This aquarium has almost as many world records as it does fish.

A studio devoted to keeping hundreds of unique Chinese arts alive.

130 replicas of world wonders squeezed into just 118 acres of space.

An impactful museum ensures notorious war crimes disguised as "medical experimentation" won't soon be forgotten.

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

China's most famous acrobatics act.

A bisected journey through evolution's history in the heart of Beijing.

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

A magical work of architecture where a wind turbine enables monks to levitate.

Jurassic theme park in the small town of Erlian.

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

Home to over 200,000 artifacts, this museum attempts to guide visitors through the ancient history of Beijing and Imperial China.