Places TheStephanieCass Wants to Go

Discovered after draining a local pond, these ancient man-made caves are still a complete mystery.

9,000 years of carnal history is on display at China's original Museum of Sex.

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

Rivers of cattle blood gone, a strange Escheresque building remains, the last of its kind.

A harrowing trail up a mile-high mountain.

The field of tiny caves that mark this Chinese cliffside are each their own historic Buddhist temple.

Explore this massive series of 45 caves and over 51,000 sculptures carved from cliffsides in China.

A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.

A clay house decorated with ceramic chips in Tianjin.

Beijing's version of Disneyland, completely abandoned, mostly destroyed.

Ming Dynasty necropolis raided during the Cultural Revolution.

This sensational Chinese temple walks visitors through the 76 weird departments of the afterlife.

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

Beijing's expansive subterranean hiding spot now crumbles away as a tourist destination.

These concrete domes were installed on an Icelandic bluff to honor a very specific musical tradion.