The Badaguan Scenic Area is a famous picturesque sanitarium area in China, located in the east of Qingdao City, Shandong Province. This place used to have eight avenues that were named after eight famous passes in China. Thus, it was named Badaguan, which means eight passes. Since 1949, two more avenues were built in the area and there are now actually ten avenues. However, its name still remains the same.

Badaguan Scenic Area used to be a place where people from more than twenty countries, such as Russia, Britain, France, Germany, the United States of America, Denmark, Greece, Spain, Switzerland, Japan and more, constructed buildings in each of their unique national styles.

Nicknamed the "Architecture Museum", Badaguan Scenic Area is a concentration of modern architectural heritage, it boasts more than 200 different architectural styles ranging from German to Dutch. Its buildings, with pleasing proportions and diverse styles, are in perfect harmony with the surrounding environment. The tiny lanes that vein this area are draped with cypress and peach and crabapple trees, lending it a botanical garden quality.

Luxuriant trees growing along each avenue provide a pleasant shade in Badaguan Scenic Area. Moreover, there is a vast array of different flowers, which from a quiet, clean and beautiful environment all year-round. Each of the ten avenues has different flowers and trees. The flowers also bloom in different seasons and give this area its other beautiful name, Hua Jie, which means Flower Street.