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Gain access to Beijing's 600-year-old Forbidden City

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Gain access to Beijing's 600-year-old Forbidden City

While a lot of these virtual tours are created from photographs, this joint venture between the Palace Museum and IBM relies on computer graphics. They may have dated but the Chinese culture is timeless and this is extremely interactive. Register to send texts to other visitors and you can also lift buildings from their foundations to explore inside the sweeping 186-acre city.

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