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North from Wangfujing to the wall the Ming built. The road passes the Forbidden City's floor plan for absolute power, the hot springs where emperors bathed at Xiaotangshan, and the reservoir that drowned a stretch of the Great Wall before ending at the restored ramparts of Mutianyu.
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Infinite Road draws from a library of primary sources — public-domain county histories, the WPA American Guide Series, National Register of Historic Places records, local records, and encyclopedic sources — then writes and narrates each story in its own words.