There’s a running joke on Chinese social media that Xi’an’s subway system has the worst feng shui—not because it’s cursed, but because the tracks have to twist and turn to avoid all the tombs buried ...

Deep beneath the surface of Qiandao Lake, an ancient metropolis remains frozen in time, untouched by centuries of decay.

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. ASTANA, Kazakhstan, July 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- A news report from Xinhuanet --Baoji City in northwest China's ...

This year's World Heritage sites include an ancient Chinese port city, an iconic boulevard in Spain, an eight-century-old Indian temple, the great spa towns of Europe, an archeological site in Turkey ...

Obscured by dirt and forgotten by time, an ancient well — and its hidden treasures — sat abandoned for centuries in central China. Not anymore. Archaeologists were excavating an ancient site in ...

The city that has reinvented itself across dynasties has no shortage of new must-see attractions in 2026. Here’s how to see ...

But here I am, on the blessedly straight and not so narrow sloped surface of that other great wall, which for kilometres wraps itself around the cosmopolitan Chinese city of Xian. Xian's principal ...