The once highest point in China blends symbolic design with a kick of adrenaline.

A prestigious learning institute of old Shanghai.

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

A temple complex has existed on this site since the third century.

Visitors take revenge upon the statue of a traitor made to kneel at the tomb of his enemy.

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

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.

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

Hidden behind musical flora and forgotten for over a thousand years, this cave is now a neon dream.

Natural arch offers panoramic views of Yangshuo's karst hills.

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

Granny Smiths and Fujis can both be traced back to Kazakhstan, where apples still grow wild.

This mysterious complex of abandoned yurts and fading murals was meant to be a center of science and spirituality in Kyrgyzstan.

Lonely minaret stump of a destroyed city.

Perhaps the tiniest sculpture in Saint Petersburg is a little bronze finch inspired by a song.

Palace where the nearly un-killable Rasputin was murdered.

A scale model of Russia so big visitors are offered binoculars to rent so they can see the whole thing.

A model village fit for an emperor.

An 18th century wonder of the world, lost in WWII, re-created at the Catherine Palace.

Stalin's march toward a more modern USSR flooded a monastery, leaving a unique and extravagant nautical marker, "The Flooded Belfry."

300-year-old villagers houses and traditional churches preserve a nearly lost piece of Russian history.

Thousands of biblical and pagan images are carved into this small 12th-century church.

This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.