Ipoh Old Town, Perak

Built on tin-mining wealth, Ipoh's old town is one of the finest collections of late Victorian and Edwardian colonial architecture in Asia — the Ipoh Railway Station (known as the Taj Mahal of the East), the Royal Ipoh Club, and the surrounding shophouse streets all speak to the immense wealth generated by Perak's tin boom between 1880 and 1920, and the city's current cultural renaissance makes it one of Malaysia's most rewarding heritage destinations.