Sometimes, 'second-best' is a better option when traveling

Our family recently went to holy hell in Beijing - and it was a heck of a good time.

My wife and I took the kids to the little-known Dongyue Temple, which is devoted to the ancient Taoist afterlife's bureaucratic operations.

It's by far my favorite holy site in Beijing, not least of all because bizarre statues of demons, deities and anthropomorphic animals "work" in offices dealing with the dead.