World’s Forbidden Gardens

Title:World’s Forbidden Gardens
Location:Katy, Texas
Description:Forbidden Gardens was built in 1997 at the pleasure of Ira P. H. Poon, AKA “Mr. Poon,” a Hong Kong real estate mogul who wanted people of Asian descent (including his teenage children) to know something of Asian culture besides firecrackers and kung-fu. Mr. Poon lives in Seattle, but preferred constructing the sprawling exhibit somewhere outdoors, open year-round, on flat, cheap land, where there was a large Asian population. Houston, 25 miles east of Forbidden Gardens, has the third highest in the nation.