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41. National Museum of Colombo

History museumCinnamon Gardens

Sri Lanka's national museum, opened in 1877 in an Italianate building in Cinnamon Gardens, home to the throne and regalia of the last Kandyan king.

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42. National Museum of Qatar

National history museumCorniche / Museum Park

Jean Nouvel's National Museum of Qatar, shaped like a desert rose crystal, tells the story of the country around a restored early twentieth-century royal palace.

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43. National Palace Museum

Museum of Chinese art and antiquitiesShilin (Waishuangxi)

Taipei's National Palace Museum holds around 700,000 objects of Chinese art and antiquity, including the Jadeite Cabbage and the Mao Gong Ding bronze.

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44. Qutub Minar

Medieval minaret and monument complexMehrauli

A 72.5-metre sandstone minaret begun in 1199, standing in a UNESCO-listed complex in Mehrauli with the Iron Pillar and the ruins of Delhi's earliest mosque.

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45. Roman Theatre

Roman theatreDowntown

A 2nd-century Roman theatre cut into the hillside of Downtown Amman, seating around 6,000 people and still used for concerts and festivals.

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46. Royal Opera House Muscat

Opera house and arts centreShatti Al Qurum

Opened in 2011 as the Gulf's first opera house, this Shatti Al Qurum landmark offers daytime building tours and an evening programme of opera, ballet and Arabic music.

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47. San Agustin Church

Baroque church and museum (UNESCO World Heritage)Intramuros

Completed in 1607 and survivor of eight major earthquakes, this Intramuros church is part of the UNESCO-listed Baroque Churches of the Philippines and has a museum in its former monastery.

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48. Singapore Botanic Gardens

Botanical garden (UNESCO World Heritage Site)Tanglin

Founded in 1859 and inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2015, these 82-hectare gardens hold a pocket of old rainforest and the National Orchid Garden.

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49. Swayambhunath

Buddhist stupaSwayambhu

An ancient hilltop stupa west of central Kathmandu, painted with the eyes of the Buddha and known as the Monkey Temple for the troops living around it.

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50. Tegallalang Rice Terraces

Rice terraces and viewpointTegallalang

Terraced rice paddies carved into a river valley about 10 km north of Ubud, watered by the traditional Balinese subak irrigation system and fringed with coconut palms.

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51. Temple of Heaven

Imperial altar complex and parkDongcheng

The Ming and Qing emperors' altar complex for prayers for good harvests, set in a large park where Beijing residents gather each morning to exercise and sing.

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52. Temple of Literature

Confucian temple and historic universityDong Da

Hanoi's Confucian temple, founded in 1070, home to Vietnam's first national university and the stone stelae recording the names of successful royal examination candidates.

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53. Tian Tan Buddha and Po Lin Monastery

Buddhist monastery and giant bronze BuddhaNgong Ping, Lantau Island

The 34-metre bronze Big Buddha and the Chan Buddhist monastery beside it on the Ngong Ping plateau of Lantau Island, reached by cable car or bus from Tung Chung.

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54. Universal Studios Japan

Theme parkKonohana-ku (Universal City)

Universal's theme park on Osaka Bay, opened in 2001 and home to Super Nintendo World, the Wizarding World of Harry Potter and Minion Park.

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55. Wat Chalong

Buddhist templeChalong

Phuket's best-known temple complex in Chalong, with a 60-metre chedi holding a Buddha relic and a hall honouring the revered monk Luang Pho Chaem.

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56. Wat Chedi Luang

Buddhist temple and ruined chediOld City

Old City temple built around a vast 15th-century brick chedi that once held the Emerald Buddha and still shelters Chiang Mai's city pillar.

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57. Wat Pho (Temple of the Reclining Buddha)

Buddhist templeRattanakosin

One of Bangkok's oldest and largest temples, famous for its 46-metre gilded Reclining Buddha and as the historic home of Thai traditional massage.

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58. Yu Garden

Classical Chinese gardenOld City, Huangpu

A Ming-dynasty private garden of rockeries, ponds and halls in Shanghai's Old City, begun in 1559 and set beside the Huxinting Teahouse and Yuyuan Bazaar.

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59. Boudhanath Stupa

Buddhist stupaBoudha

The largest stupa in the Kathmandu Valley, a centre of Tibetan Buddhist life ringed by monasteries, prayer wheels, guesthouses and restaurants east of the city.

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60. Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya

Art and history museumFort

Mumbai's main museum, the former Prince of Wales Museum, with around 50,000 objects from Indus Valley finds to Mughal miniatures in an Indo-Saracenic building.

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