95. Bagan

Bagan rose from obscurity around the year 1000 to conquer all the surrounding kingdoms and become the capital of Burma. This position lasted only about two hundred years, when the Mongols swept through Asia, destroying everything in their path. But in those two hundred years, Bagan's kings built thousands of temples, the ruins of which are everywhere you look, as far as the eye can see. In its heyday there would of course have been palaces, shops, homes and other buildings, and these thousands of temples would be covered in gold, silver and intricate decorations. These are all gone, leaving only the ruined temples as testament to what must have been an amazing city. This temple,Gawdawpalin Pahto, is probably the largest, and one of the last to be built, around 1220.