This bar is home to what's likely the oldest living jazz band in the world.

This ancient sword lay in a waterlogged tomb for 2,500 years, but managed to remain relatively untarnished and impressively sharp.

The world's largest natural arch was forgotten for over 50 years after its discovery.

Natives of this mud-brick desert village use an ancient irrigation system to grow sweet, seedless grapes.

The western-most fortress on the Great Wall of China has gone from a strategic stronghold to a kitschy tourist carnival.

Hundreds of large Russian nesting dolls decorate this square, and the largest is a functioning hotel.

A KFC honors an eighth-century Chinese poet with holograms and verse.

This top secret Chinese military megaproject is the world’s largest human-made tunnel structure.

The ancient remains of this natural fortress can still be found along the Silk Road looking surprisingly preserved.

China's beehive-shaped pyramids house the remains of a lost kingdom.

This ratty natural history collection is a charming relic among a city rushing into modernity.

A chinese farmer builds robots from scrap.

China's mysterious record-setting sleeping Buddha.

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

This highest bridge in the world spans such a great chasm that it had to be established using rockets.

Comprised of thousands of cave temple carvings this cornucopia of ancient Chinese stone art is unrivaled anywhere in the world.

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

Thousands of locks professing undying devotion line the metal chains of Lotus Peak.

North Korea's massive art and propaganda factory now has an official gallery space in Beijing.

This aquarium has almost as many world records as it does fish.

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

This historic Chinese tower was said to have been haunted by fox spirits but is now haunted by a grisly murder.

The largest statue in the world towers at 420 feet high atop another 66 feet of pedestal.

130 replicas of world wonders squeezed into just 118 acres of space.