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TIL Xanadu, the exotic "stately pleasure-dome" from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Kubla Khan, was a real abandoned city in Inner Mongolia, China. Kublai Khan built it as the Yuan dynasty's summer capital, and Marco Polo visited during his travels.

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