Vimanmek Mansion

This guide to Vimanmek Mansion in Bangkok's Dusit district traces a teak palace that began life on the island of Ko Si Chang, where King Chulalongkorn kept a summer residence, before it was dismantled beam by beam and shipped to Bangkok in 1900. It follows the nail-free craftsmanship that reassembled all seventy-two rooms, and what happened to the world's largest golden teak building after Rama the Fifth moved to a grander residence nearby. Notice the joinery overhead, where timber locks to timber without a single nail.