Unofficially haunting: Beijing temple houses bizarre bureaucracy

In a country that doesn't formally recognize Halloween, China's capital city has an officially scarier way to spend a late October afternoon.

Off a busy road in northeastern Beijing, demons, monsters and ghosts populate an ancient temple's homage to the stuff of big city nightmares: bureaucracy.

At Dongyue Temple, built by Taoist monks in 1319, there is an official department of demons and monsters and a department of implementing 15 kinds of violent deaths. There is a bureaucrat-filled department of hell, too, with forms to fill out.