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   Old Customs House

   This riverside customs building once collected duties from arriving ships and became a haunting symbol of Bangkok's nineteenth-century trading boom.

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   Bangkok General Post Office

   1940 Art Deco post office on Charoen Krung with Garuda statues, on the site of the first post office of Siam.

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   Holy Rosary Church

   A historic Roman Catholic church with Gothic Revival architecture.

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   Siam Commercial Bank Talat Noi Branch

   The ornate riverside branch recalls the creation of Thailand's first indigenous commercial bank and Talat Noi's importance to mercantile finance.

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   So Heng Tai Mansion

   This rare nineteenth-century Hokkien courtyard mansion preserves the domestic world of a wealthy Chinese merchant family in Talat Noi.

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   Wat Traimit

   The Golden Buddha statue, a solid-gold image revealed in 1955.

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   Hua Lamphong railway station

   Hua Lamphong is best known as the former central railway station and transport hub of Bangkok.

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   Yaowarat Road

   Yaowarat Road is best known for its vibrant street food scene and as the main artery of Bangkok's Chinatown.

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   Sampeng Lane

   A historic market in Bangkok's Chinatown known for its wholesale goods.

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    Wat Kanikaphon

    A temple built with funds from a brothel, reflecting an unusual historical background.

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    Poh Teck Tung Foundation

    Chinese charity founded over a century ago to bury unidentified dead, with a shrine on Plaeng Nam Road.

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    Wat Chakrawat

    Crocodiles live in the pond of this Chinatown temple, and the neighbourhood likes to tell the story of how they got there.