The current residence of Cambodia's king and the ceremonial heart of the capital — the Silver Pagoda within the complex takes its name from the thousands of silver tiles covering its floor.
A former high school converted into S-21, a Khmer Rouge detention and torture center, now a genocide museum — alongside the Choeung Ek Killing Fields memorial outside the city. A heavy, essential counterpart to Angkor's ancient grandeur, and generally considered one of the more important stops in the country for understanding what happened here within living memory.