* The Angkor Wat is the largest religious structure in the world.

* It is the only structure from the Khmer empire that faces west rather than east, as all of the other buildings do.

*The moat surrounding the structure symbolizes the ocean at the end of the world in the Hindu belief.

*The five towers of the structure symbolize the five peaks that surround Siem Reap, the town in Cambodia which the structure is located a couple of miles from.

* The Angkor Wat covers over one square mile of land, not including the moat.

* The moat around the Angkor Wat is three miles long.

* Alligators and fish actually live in the Wat's moat.

*The Angkor Wat has a gate and drawbridge in the main entrance on the west side.