Visit Chairman Mao

Beijing is brimming with plenty of weird museums – there’s the Museum of Tap Water, the China Honey Bee Museum, even the Daxing Watermelon Museum. However, the standout is Mao’s Mausoleum – formally the Chairman Mao Memorial Hall – where China’s iconic communist statesman lies in state for visitors to gawk at. The ‘Great Helmsman’ died in 1976 before his body was embalmed and laid to rest in a grand building in Tiananmen Square, although conspiracy theorists will tell you a wax sculpture has been placed over the actual corpse.