Beijing, China
Bai Gong Fang (100 Handicraftsmen Workshop)
A studio devoted to keeping hundreds of unique Chinese arts alive.
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Beijing, China
A studio devoted to keeping hundreds of unique Chinese arts alive.
Beijing, China
An ancient Chinese temple where even the emperor dressed like a farmer in the name of the harvest.
Beijing, China
A chinese farmer builds robots from scrap.
Suncheon, South Korea
A Korean village where times stands still.
Fatehpur Sikri, India
An imperial fortress city that incorporated cultural elements from the entire Mughal empire, only to be abandoned the year it was finished.
Datong, China
Explore this massive series of 45 caves and over 51,000 sculptures carved from cliffsides in China.
Sangtoli, India
A centuries-old lookout post still sits atop a natural stone spire.
Datong, China
A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.
Callanna, Australia
Not a single witness can attest to the creation of the world's largest geoglyph.
Karatsu, Japan
The floats housed in this hall are more than 100 years old, and are brought out for an annual celebration.
Sasebo, Japan
The world’s first hotel to be run by robots.
South Sikkim, India
Miraculous vase predicts the future at this Tibetan Buddhist site in the Himalayas.
Nagasaki, Japan
Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.
Guoliang, China
A tunnel dug through the side of a mountain by hand provides convenient yet death-defying access to a small village in China.
Kanyakumari, India
A towering work of stone and philosophy that was constructed using ancient Hindu science.
Paro, Bhutan
The small cliffside monastery known as the Tiger's Nest is said to be the meditation site of an 8th-century Buddhist master.
Madurai, India
This ancient Hindu temple is covered in thousands of colorful statues and has a long mythological history.
Seogwipo, South Korea
South Korea's women of the sea have completely flipped their society's structure by becoming revered fisherwomen.
Tianshui, China
Rock-cut caves and 7,000 Buddhist sculptures carved into the nearly sheer face of a sandstone mountain.
Zhengzhou, China
350-foot-high emperor faces in China's Yellow River valley.
Bommayapalayam, India
This experimental utopian "city of the future" in rural India may hold a dark secret.
Xianyang, China
Enormous burial mounds of ancient emperors.
Weinan, China
A sacred mountaintop temple offers a fine cup of tea to visitors who can survive the journey.
Aba, China
Intensely colorful calcite pools in Southern China.