Even if your knowledge of architecture begins and ends with Ted Mosby, you probably know Zaha Hadid from her splashy sports arenas. (She built the London Aquatics Centre and Tokyo Olympic stadium.) But her firm’s been clocking in impressive work all over the globe for years, and one of the finest examples is this Chinese opera house. The twinkling lights and cascading tiers promise to keep you engaged, even as those Carmenarias are boring you to tears.