9. Fengdu Ghost City, China
There is a place called Fengdu Ghost City in China that lies on the Yangtze River south of the large city of Chongqing. This place, on the Ming Mountain, is rife with buildings, statues, Chinese mythology, and Buddhist inspiration that represent the underworld. According to folklore, souls must pass through three tests before moving onto the next life, and it is here in Ghost City where tourists from China and all over the world come to learn about the afterlife and ghost culture. In fact, the Chinese believe the devil lives in Fengu, and that the souls of the evil will come here to pass into the afterlife.
Interestingly, the Chinese have a somewhat similar idea of hell as does the western world, and even though much of the 2,000-year-old Ghost City has been under water since the construction of the famous Three Gorges Dam, a hill and dozens of temples remain. This includes the area just above the Door to Hell. It is reachable now by boat, and visitors can walk the bridges, face the demons that guard the entrance into the underworld, and view dioramas of hell, as well as the largest-ever statue carved into a rock, that of the Ghost King.
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