A Definitive Ranking of the Top 10 Sights in the World

When all the votes were counted, the No. 1 sight in the Ultimate Travel was the undisputed champion by some margin: it won 36 percent more votes than the very closely fought second and third places.

As the world's greatest temple to the Hindu god Vishnu, Angkor Wat might seem a bit off the grid in Buddhist Cambodia, but this magnificent monument is the greatest treasure of a Hindu kingdom that once stretched as far as Burma, Laos, and southern China. Even in a region as richly gifted with temples as Southeast Asia, Angkor is something out of the ordinary — a literal representation of heaven on earth, hewn from thousands of sandstone blocks and carved floor to ceiling with legends from the Ramayana, Mahabharata, and Puranas.

Even better, Angkor Wat is the crowning glory in a complex of more than 1,000 temples, shrines, and tombs that forms a virtual city of spires in the jungles of northern Cambodia.

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