6. Go Goldfishing
In Yanzhong Park, you’ll be outfitted with a fishing pole and bucket (for a nominal fee) to try your hand at angling for goldfish.  You can catch and release or buy a bowl to take your precious catch home with you.  FYI – you might be the only adult fisherperson in the crowd.

5. A Loo with a View
The bathrooms on the 100th floor observation desk of the Shanghai World Financial Center (the world’s tallest observation deck) offer perhaps the best view you’ll ever have while peeing.

4. Gnomes Riding Camels
The Shanghai Museum, which houses an impressive array of artifacts and artwork from all over the world, also boasts a collection of ceramic gnomes riding camels as part of their permanent collection.

3. Sword Dancing
You can watch Sword Dancing practice every Sunday morning…on public sidewalks! Its an instinctively alarming sight to see a group of people assaulting the air with metal swords.  On closer inspection, the control and grace with which the swords slice this way and that is rather elegant.  But still, file this under “things you won’t see at home.”

2. Sugar Rush
You’ll find sugar cane carts being pushed all over the city. For about $0.25, a hand-crank will frantically be turned until a full glass of juice is extracted from the cane.  Its a refreshing and sweet beverage – though not as sweet as you might think given that it is, well, pure sugar.

1. Down the Rabbit Hole
An easy way to travel from one bank of the Huangpu River to the other, the Bund Sightseeing Tunnel is a literal and figurative trip.  Its a strange four-minute journey filled with flashing lights, awkward narration and psychedelic sound effects.