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81. Ta Prohm
Jayavarman VII's monastery temple of 1186, left partly in the grip of giant silk-cotton and strangler fig trees and famous from the film Tomb Raider.
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290 places · Updated November 12, 2026
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Jayavarman VII's monastery temple of 1186, left partly in the grip of giant silk-cotton and strangler fig trees and famous from the film Tomb Raider.
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A late 18th-century merchant house kept by the same family for seven generations, combining Vietnamese, Chinese and Japanese building traditions on Nguyen Thai Hoc Street.
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Jordan's national museum in Ras al-Ain, telling the country's story from prehistory to today, with the Ain Ghazal statues and Dead Sea Scrolls.
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A Hindu water temple at Tampaksiring founded in the 10th century around a sacred spring, where Balinese worshippers bathe beneath carved spouts in a purification ritual.
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Japan's oldest national museum, founded in 1872, with a vast collection of Japanese and Asian art and archaeology across several galleries in Ueno Park.
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A riverside temple on the Thonburi bank, known for its towering central prang encrusted with colourful porcelain and seashell mosaics.
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First-grade royal temple in the western Old City, founded in 1345 and home to the Phra Buddha Sihing image and the painted Viharn Lai Kham.
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The Sultan's ceremonial palace in Old Muscat, rebuilt in 1972 with gold and blue columns, viewed from its gates at the end of a long arcaded plaza.
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A small 10th-century temple to Shiva, about 25 km north-east of the main Angkor group, carved in pink-red sandstone with exceptionally fine decoration.
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A 351.5-metre tower shaped like a lotus bud on the edge of Beira Lake, opened to the public in 2022 with an observation gallery and restaurants.
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UNESCO-listed rock-cut cave temples on an island in Mumbai Harbour, famous for the colossal three-faced Sadashiva sculpture of Shiva.
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The grandest of Hoi An's Chinese assembly halls, founded by Fujian merchants in 1697 and dedicated to Thien Hau, the goddess of the sea.
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Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa's fifteenth-century retreat in the eastern hills, with a restrained two-storey Kannon hall, sculpted sand gardens and a moss-covered hillside walk.
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The Elephant Cave at Bedulu, an 11th-century rock-cut hermitage with a demon-faced entrance, bathing pool and both Hindu and Buddhist carvings, about 6 km south-east of Ubud.
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A museum in the West Kowloon Cultural District showing treasures on long-term loan from the Palace Museum in Beijing alongside exhibitions of Chinese art and culture.
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The UNESCO-listed heart of the old imperial capital, with the Doan Mon gate, the Kinh Thien Palace foundations, the 1967 D67 building and excavations spanning a thousand years.
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The public gardens of the Imperial Palace, laid out on the Honmaru and Ninomaru grounds of the former Edo Castle in central Tokyo.
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Lutyens' 42-metre memorial arch on Kartavya Path, inaugurated in 1931 to honour Indian soldiers who died between 1914 and 1921, surrounded by wide public lawns.
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UNESCO-listed 18th-century observatory beside City Palace with 19 masonry instruments built by Sawai Jai Singh II, including a giant stone sundial.
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The canal-side teak home of the American silk entrepreneur Jim Thompson, now a museum of Southeast Asian art shown on guided tours.
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