Address: Eastern foot of Xiangshan, Haidian District, Beijing

Address: 7 Tiantan Nei Dongli, Chongwen District, Beijing

Description: The Temple of Heaven is an enormous complex in the world built in the 15th Century during the Ming Dynasty and expanded during the Qing Dynasty . Set in a tranquil park, the temple complex covers 273 hectares. ...

Address: city center, Dongcheng District, Beijing

Description: Tiananmen Square (or the Gate of Heavenly Peace) is the geographical center of Beijing and the largest city square in the world. It occupies 440,000 sqm and can accommodate 1 million people at one time. The squ...

Address: 19 Zhenxian Hutong, Dongzhimen Bei Xiao Jie, Dongcheng District, ...

Description: Located in a hutong near Dongzhimen, Tongjiao Temple may lack the size or history of the other temples on this list but as an active Buddhist temple and convent for Buddhist nuns, it will be of interest to thos...

Address: 62 ,Xidamo, Hutong Xicheng ,District, Beijing

Description: Originally a bomb shelter, Beijing's Underground City, is located under the ancient capital's downtown area. The complex is a 1969 relic of the Sino-Soviet border conflict and built under the directive of Chair...

Address: Olympic Park, Chaoyang District, Beijing

Description: The Beijing National Aquatics Center, more commonly referred to as the Water Cube, was one of the main architectural highlights of the Beijing Olympic Games. Both during and after the Olympics, the Water Cube w...

Address: 9 Baiyunguan Jie, Baiyun Lu, Xicheng District, Beijing

Description: Also known as Baiyun Guan, this temple is the largest Taoist temple in Beijing and has been so ever since the Tang Dynasty. It is one of The Three Great Ancestral Courts of the Complete Perfection Sect of Taois...

Address: Xichong Beach, Nan Ao, Longgang District, Shenzhen

Address: 11 Huangsi Dajie, Andingmen Wai, Xicheng District, Beijing

Description: Though its sibling, Donghuang Temple, was demolished during the Great Leap Forward, Xihuang Temple survives today as one of Beijing’s relatively few Lamist temples. Donghuang was built in the mid-1600s to hous...

Address: 12 Yonghegong Dajie, Beijxinqiao, Dongcheng District, Beijing

Description: One of the most beautiful temples in Beijing, the Lama Temple represents the Buddhist architecture with its richly decorated archways and detailed carvings on hall boards. Temple's history dates back to 1723 wh...

Address: 4/F, South Bldg, The Place, 9 Guanghua Lu, Chaoyang District, Beijing

Description: Yu Kids Island is located on the top floor of the upscale shopping center The Place in Chaoyang District, an area popular with the expat population. There is a ball pit, a balloon cage, electric see-saws and ri...

Address: West Gate of Wuling Mountain, near Caojialu Town, Miyun, Beijing