Monument

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The travel website TripAdvisor named its top landmark for travelers.

Monument.

The ancient Angkor Wat in Cambodia was chosen as the top landmark in the world to visit.

It received 33,000 five-star reviews on TripAdvisor.

Angkor Wat is the world’s largest religious monument.

A monument serves as an honor to something or someone notable or great.

It can be a building, a statue or even a park area.

Sometimes a monument is a place where an important event in history took place.