Sandakan Old Town, Sabah

Once the capital of British North Borneo and a timber trading hub of enormous wealth, Sandakan's Agnes Keith House — the colonial home of the American author who wrote the wartime memoir "Land Below the Wind" — and the surrounding colonial quarter preserve a poignant window into pre-war Borneo life that is deepened by the proximity of the Sandakan Death March memorial site at Taman Rimba.