This World Heritage Site Is Closed To Visitors, But Now You Can Take A Virtual Reality Tour

More and more closed-off places—like the fragile Caves of the Thousand Buddhas in the Gobi Desert—will become accessible as the technology improves.

Carved into cliffs in the Gobi Desert, 700 ancient grottos called the Caves of the Thousand Buddhas hold paintings and sculptures that date as far back as the second century. Unsurprisingly, the World Heritage Site is a little fragile, and many of the grottos are usually closed to the public. But a new experiment in virtual reality is opening up one of the caves for exploration from people around the world.

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