While being suspended above the Yangzi and Jialing Rivers or Chongqing's towering skyscrapers may not be everyone's cup of tea, there is a little bit of interesting history attached to the cable cars of Chongqing. They were built during the 1940s right around the time that the Communist Party was in town strategizing on how to overcome the invading Japanese. Only the Chaotianmen Cable Car remains today. 

Up until a couple of decades ago these windlass powered cable cars were commonly used as a form of public transportation, but these days they are more of a tourist attraction.