A complex and beautiful system of rice terraces covers a million acres over the mountains.

This Tang Dynasty behemoth is the biggest Buddha in the world.

This Chinese museum proves that it's a watermelon world, we're all just living in it.

The ancient settlement attracts tourists from all over looking to learn about the Chinese vision of the afterlife.

A sacred mountaintop temple offers a fine cup of tea to visitors who can survive the journey.

270 million year-old forest of stone.

Not one, not two, but three natural bridges remain in this captivating spot post-sinkhole.

Mirrored floors and arched shelves create the illusion of an infinite tunnel of books.

This psychedelic tourist trap is a leisurely descent into madness.

These layered sandstone mountains in China look like they are made of pressed crayons.

A canvas of crops grow from vibrant red soil in this terraced farmland.

The world's longest outdoor escalator takes visitors to the top of China's largest dam and is also shaped like a dragon.

A total of 999 stairs lead visitors through a massive hole in a mountain known as the Gateway to Heaven.

Intensely colorful calcite pools in Southern China.

This abandoned fishing settlement may well be the greenest village in the world.

This vertical pinnacle in China was the inspiration for the floating mountains in the movie “Avatar.”

A part of the world's largest marsh seems to be growing bright red Martian grass.

Visitors to this museum will find architectural oddities, an art gallery, and an unlikely bird sanctuary.

A striking series of six bridges connect islands in Indonesia.

Mount Tambora is the site of the largest and deadliest volcanic eruption in recorded human history.

In this Balinese village, coconut shells containing placentas are hung from trees.

The unique design was created by the traditional way communal rice paddies were divided among the indigenous people.

The remote island home of the overlooked explorer who co-discovered the theory of evolution by natural selection.

It took 28 years to build this massive statue of the Hindu god Vishnu riding a mythical bird.