I finally got to see the Taj Mahal. It's as impressive as it looks in the photos. The story for those of you who haven't heard it, the queen died while giving burth to her fourteenth child.
The engineering and workmanship that went into it is incredible. The steps they went to to prevent damage to the main dome is amazing, the four minarets around it were built leaning two degrees out so that if they fell it would be away from the main dome.
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