This huge store sells a wide range of traditional Chinese goods and handicrafts including watercolor paintings, cashmere clothing, porcelain, jade, rugs and traditional Chinese medicine.

Lined with billowing red lanterns, this busy all-night food boulevard stretches more than a mile-and-a-quarter and is lined with more than 100 restaurants featuring local cuisines from the different provinces.

The Silk Market - the New Xiushui Market is fun and yes, everything is fake. It takes a lot of patience, time and back and forth with the calculator, but the people are wonderful. Start at the top...

Located near a lake and a reservoir, this part of the Wall is called Yellow Flower Fortress and is a good place for hiking.

Built in 1530, this is one of the oldest parks in Beijing that once served as an altar site where the emperor made sacrificial offerings to the sun god.

This street is comprised of upscale and flea-market shops.

At 167 feet tall, this temple is the largest Tibetan dagoba (also called pagoda) in China, and displays artifacts unearthed from the site in a 1976 earthquake.

Tea parties and musical performances are held at this grand palace, home to royalty during the Ming dynasty.

Originally built in 1302 and used as a place for sacrifices to Confucius during the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, this former temple lost its religious function during the “bourgeois revolution” in 1912 and currently houses the Capital Museum.

Cast in lacquered bronze in 1331, this magnificent Buddha measures more than 15 feet in length and weighs more than fifty-four tons, making it the largest bronze statue in China.