Imperial Ancestral Temple (The Working People's Cultural Palace) 太庙

Just to the east of Tiananmen Gate is the entrance to the "Working People's Cultural Palace," also known as the Imperial Ancestral Temple. This is the cheat code version of the Forbidden City: Nearly identical architecture and spaces with 99 percent fewer other humans to share those spaces. If you're slick enough – or your guests aren't paying sufficient attention/still hungover from the night before – you can fool them into thinking they are actually in the Forbidden City proper.