Choeung Ek is a mass grave site, one of the better-known ones from The Killing Fields: a collection of sites throughout the country where the Communist Khmer Rouge regime killed and buried over a million people. Choeung Ek, in particular, is an 11-mile mass grave that housed 8,895 bodies. Researchers identified that many of the people were former political prisoners who had been kept in the Tuol Sleng detention center. Currently, visitors will be able to see a Buddhist stupa on the site that memorializes those who were found there. The stupa has clear acrylic sides filled with over 5,000 human skulls, which visitors can see.

Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Phone: +8-55-23-30-53-71

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