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Castle Sinclair Girnigoe is a complex of ruined stone structures built and modified over a 200-year period, historically one of northern Scotland's most powerful families.

Although Selby Abbey is now a parish church, it was one of England's great monastic churches, built on a grand scale and to a high level of architectural and artistic mastery.

Discovered in 1879, Brading Roman Villa is an important Roman country house on the Isle of Wight notable for its mosaics.

The oasis of Merv is strategically sited in the Karakum desert and formed an essential military headquarters and staging post on major east-west trade routes.

Located in modern-day eastern Türkiye, Ani Cathedral is one of the most significant architectural structures remaining from the prosperous Armenian Bagratid period in the 10th and 11th centuries AD.

Aleppo is one of the oldest continuously inhabited centers of human settlement and has flourished for millennia.

The Citadel of Aleppo, one of the oldest continuously occupied settlements in the world, richly preserves layers of its occupation from the Hittite to Ottoman periods.

The storm god is an ancient divinity that manifested itself in awe-inspiring thunderstorms and was important for agriculture.

One of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, Aleppo preserves remnants of more than four millennia of Near Eastern history.

The restoration of Viipuri Library protected an iconic example of modernist architecture while also setting a precedent for conservation projects at similar sites around the world.

The Chinese Palace at Oranienbaum was the first palace commissioned by Russian empress Catherine the Great following her seizure of power from her husband.

Founded under Patriarch Nikon in the 17th century in Istra on the outskirts of Moscow, the New Jerusalem Monastery was meant to evoke the Holy Land and serve as a pilgrimage site.