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Angkor Wat: The Temple That Faces the Wrong Way

The largest temple ever built faces the wrong way — west, toward the dead, while every other Khmer temple turned to the sunrise. Nine centuries on, nobody can say why. Come before dawn, when five towers rise out of the dark and stand upside down in a lotus pond.

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Angkor Wat: The Temple That Faces the Wrong Way