palace with a vast park and a cane palace:

His 1625 edition expanded the detail, echoing Marco Polo's account:

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Inspired by Purchas's account, Coleridge dreamt of Xanadu while under the influence of opium and began writing the poem Kubla Khan (1797):

Astronomy

In 2006, the International Astronomical Union named a region on Saturn's moon Titan "Xanadu". Its radar-imaged landscape resembles Earth, with rivers