- The vestiges of the royal palace, which had been built during the reign of Suryavarman I 150 years earlier. It stood within an enclosure containing also the pyramidal religious structure known as the Phimeanakas. To the east of this enclosure there extends a terrace decorated with magnificent reliefs.
- Extending north from the eastern gate of the royal palace are two magnificent terraces- the Terrace of the Elephants and the Terrace of the Leper King. The Terrace of the Elephants served as a viewing platform for royal parties and was decorated with elaborate reliefs, depicting both elephants and garuda (a mythical creature taking on the shape of a humanoid bird). The Terrace of the Leper King is located to the north of the Terrace of the Elephants. Atop this decorative platform stands a recently restored statue. Some argue that the statue is the likeness of Yama, the Hindu god of death. Yet, surrounding this statue to each of the cardinal directions are four lesser statues, each facing away from the central statue. Because of this, recent scholarship believe the statue is the likeness of a Khmer ruler who allegedly died of leprosy- either Yasovarman I or Jayavarman VII.
- The temple of Bayon, Jayavarman VII's state temple. It is a square enclosure formed by galleries with colonnades, within which is another and more elaborate system of galleries, rectangular in arrangement and enclosing a cruciform structure, at the centre of which rises a huge tower with a circular base. Fifty towers, decorated with quadruple faces of the Buddha, are built at intervals upon the galleries, and the inside walls are covered with reliefs of kings and town life, the whole temple ranking as perhaps the most remarkable of the Khmer remains.
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