Places stonoceno Wants to Go

The world's second-largest sundial, made entirely out of stone.

The remains of what was, not so long ago, the world's largest city.

The second-longest continuous wall on the planet protects a hidden secret in the deserts of India.

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

This quiet area of Yunnan Province annually transforms into an unbelievable sea of yellow flowers.

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

No one is exactly sure why over a hundred lakes have formed amongst the tallest sand dunes on Earth.

What can compare to the comforting sound of 10,000 toilets running?

This smaller cousin of the Forbidden City has gone from ancestral sacrifice to tourist's whispers.

Walled family complexes in Southern China.

The world's largest statue of Mao Zedong looks out over the city where he discovered Communism.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

This complex of vertically-excavated Buddhist, Jain, and Hindu monolithic temples in India's Maharashtra providence illustrates a spirit of tolerance characteristic of ancient India.

A palatial sculpture park was built illegally and in secret by a self-taught artist over 36 years.

A mecca for India's Jains.

The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.

A lake with hundreds of ancient skeletons surrounding it. The surprise is what killed them.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

Centuries-old bridges grown from tangled roots.

Thousands of abandoned statues of deities are taken to this hillside in southern Hong Kong.

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

It seems that the residents of of this megalopolis suddenly vanished, but they were never actually there.

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

Thanks to the building of a life-giving reservoir, part of the Great Wall of China is now a dive site.