This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

Perfectly preserved ancient monastery in an impossibly dramatic location on a rocky island in the Atlantic.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

The birthplace of modern China.

The powerful party began with a secret meeting in this shikumen in 1921.

This tunnel looks like a sliver of Shanghai that's stuck in the past.

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

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

A giant scale model giving a sneak peek at what urban planners see for Shanghai by 2020.

A son-and-daughter meat market, hawked by mom and dad.

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

An collection of Chinese propaganda posters from 1949 to 1979.

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

The world’s tallest outdoor lift stretches along the stone pillars that inspired the floating mountains in the movie “Avatar.”

The latest in a series of long glass bridges suspended at terrifying heights.

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

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

The earliest pagoda built in the beautiful Panmen Scenic Area of Suzhou.

Legend says one of the world's largest marine geysers is actually a whale that got wedged within the rocks.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

This former shopping outlet is now adorned with beautiful graffiti and murals.

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.