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Massive fortified towers blend North American and Chinese architecture.

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

A tidal bore with its own festival.

Eurasia's most difficult place to hang out, and farthest point from sea access.

One of China's last communal villages wears its ideals on its sleeve.

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

A centuries-old lookout post still sits atop a natural stone spire.

A nearly unconquerable island-fort in the Indian Ocean.

This hilltop warren of monastic dwellings is the result of centuries worth of Mongol attacks.

Modest by day, illuminated majestically at sunset.

Remote town home to Himachalis, Israelis, and tons of hashish.

An ancient iron pillar in Delhi that seems to be rustproof.

An abandoned settlement originally established by British colonialists in the Andaman archipelago.

This ancient Hindu temple is covered in thousands of colorful statues and has a long mythological history.

A complex of six forts embedded in the Rajasthan hills.

A centuries-old fortress city lies in ruin.

A blooming house of worship for the masses.

Temples adorned with intricate, erotic sculptures make up one of the "seven wonders" of India.

This abandoned fort is said to be the most haunted place in India, so much so that entry is prohibited after sunset.

This experimental utopian "city of the future" in rural India may hold a dark secret.

An extraordinary "City of Caves" carved from solid stone.

The burial grounds of a Chinese eunuch who served his way into the highest levels of Imperial government.

A spectacular annual festival centers around humans throwing molten iron against a wall at night.

The largest radio telescope in the world searches for extraterrestrial life from the remote limestone peaks of southern China.