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Billed as the world's largest open-air museum — a vast park, shaped like Thailand itself, scattered with full-size and scaled replicas of the country's greatest monuments, best explored by bicycle over a whole unhurried day.
The world's second-oldest antivenom facility — a working Red Cross research centre where you can watch live venom-extraction shows and meet cobras, vipers, and king cobras in the heart of the city.
A colossal three-headed bronze elephant the size of a building, with a jewel-box temple-museum inside its belly and legs — climb a spiral staircase up through the body into a cosmic 'heaven' beneath the creature's heads.
