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Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang

Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang
Aaron Zhu, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
34.3817°N, 109.2539°EOPEN YEAR-ROUND

The unexcavated burial mound of China's first emperor, near Xi'an, guarded by the nearby Terracotta Army; the tomb chamber itself, reputedly booby-trapped and lined with a map of rivers in mercury, has never been opened.

AlternativeFamous GravesClassical (500 BC – 500 CE)UNESCO World Heritage