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181. Gunung Kawi
An 11th-century funerary complex at Tampaksiring where ten shrines about seven metres high are carved into cliff faces on both banks of the Pakerisan River.
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290 places · Updated November 12, 2026
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An 11th-century funerary complex at Tampaksiring where ten shrines about seven metres high are carved into cliff faces on both banks of the Pakerisan River.
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Pettah's red-and-white Red Mosque, built in 1908 to 1909 by South Indian traders and one of Colombo's oldest and most photographed mosques.
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A Buddhist temple on West Nanjing Road, founded in the third century and rebuilt since 1983, with a 15-tonne silver Buddha and a Ming-dynasty bell.
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A Ming-era artificial hill directly north of the Forbidden City, topped by five pavilions with the best view over the palace roofs.
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More than a hundred Buddhist caves carved into the forested hills of Sanjay Gandhi National Park, with a great pillared prayer hall and giant Buddha reliefs.
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Central Bangkok's best-loved green space, a 57-hectare park with a boating lake, jogging paths and resident monitor lizards beside the Silom business district.
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Waterfront park at Marina Bay home to the 8.6-metre Merlion statue, Singapore's half-lion, half-fish national symbol, facing Marina Bay Sands.
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A small museum in a traditional two-storey house on Tran Phu Street, displaying around 430 trade ceramics from the 13th to 17th centuries found in and around Hoi An.
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A hilltop fort first built by the Portuguese in the 1580s, with three round towers and wide views over Mutrah Corniche, the souq and the harbour.
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The free national museum of Philippine archaeology and ethnology, in the former Finance Building, with treasures from the San Diego galleon wreck and galleries on scripts and textiles.
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Opened in 1963 on Jalan Damansara, Muzium Negara tells Malaysia's story from prehistory to independence, with a Terengganu timber palace and historic vehicles outside.
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Taiwan's oldest museum occupies a 1913 Greek-style building in 228 Peace Memorial Park, with collections on the island's wildlife, plants and peoples.
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A museum of Hindu and Buddhist bronzes and metalwork set in a restored Malla palace courtyard on Patan Durbar Square.
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A late 9th-century hilltop temple to Shiva, the centre of the first Angkor capital and a popular place to watch the sun set over the temple plain.
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The collection of cars and motorcycles that belonged to King Hussein, telling Jordan's modern history through around 80 vehicles, some dating from 1916.
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A Zen temple founded in 1450 whose walled garden of fifteen stones set in raked white gravel is the best-known dry landscape garden in Japan.
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The municipal theatre completed in 1900, a French colonial building whose facade echoes the Petit Palais in Paris, still used for performances on Lam Son Square.
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A coastal national park in north-west Phuket around the airport, protecting Nai Yang, Mai Khao and Nai Thon beaches, mangroves and offshore coral reefs.
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Hanoi's oldest church, a Neo-Gothic cathedral modelled on Notre-Dame de Paris, consecrated in 1886 on the site of the old Bao Thien Tower.
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A vast Hindu temple complex on the banks of the Yamuna, consecrated in 2005, built of carved pink sandstone and marble with exhibitions, a boat ride and an evening water show.
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