Penang, MalaysiaGeorge Town's world-famous street art trail - over 50 iron rod sculptures and painted murals spread across the heritage city, commissioned for the 2012 George Town Festival. Ernest Zacharevic's "Children on a Bicycle" is the most photographed artwork in Malaysia and a selfie pilgrimage site for millions.
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The most elaborate clan house in Malaysia - a 19th-century Hokkien Chinese community temple with a rooftop adorned with 2-ton dragon sculptures, intricately painted eaves, and gold-leaf ceremonial halls. The Khoo Kongsi represents the wealth and ambition of Penang's early Chinese merchant community.
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A jaw-dropping museum inside a restored Peranakan magnate's mansion decorated with over 1,000 antiques - Scottish cast-iron columns, French Baroque furniture, Chinese porcelain, and English tiles from the 1890s. The best window into the extraordinary Baba-Nyonya hybrid culture of the Straits Settlements.
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George Town's most spectacular Hindu temple with a towering gopuram (gateway tower) covered in hundreds of colorful deity statues. Built in 1833 and rebuilt in spectacular South Indian Dravidian style in 1993, the temple is the departure point for the annual Thaipusam festival procession.