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Established in the late eighteenth century for the city's growing Protestant community, Rome's Cimitero Acattolico, was the final resting place for diplomats, scholars, artists and writers.

In the second century AD, the Roman emperor Hadrian built a country villa east of the capital to escape the pressures of Rome.

One of few buildings of its kind to survive in Ireland, the Wonderful Barn was built in 1743 as part of a famine-relief project. It was intended to serve as grain barn and English garden-type folly.

The citadel of Bam, the largest extant mud-brick complex in the world, was heavily damaged by an earthquake in 2003.

Omo Hada is a rare surviving eighteenth-century traditional Indonesian village.

Located in Mumbai's Kala Ghoda Art District, Watson's Hotel may be the earliest surviving example of cast-iron architecture in India.

The Dhangkar Gompa is one of five major Buddhist monastic centers in the remote region of Spiti near the Tibetan border.

In the early fourth century a wooden cross was erected over a pagan sanctuary on a rocky mountaintop overlooking Mtskehta, the former capital of the Georgian Kingdom of Kartli-Iberia.

With its deep anchorage, the port of Massawa on the Red Sea served countless traders over the centuries when it was ruled by the Ottomans, Egypt, and more recently, Italy.

The eighteenth-century adobe churches of San Miguel Arcángel in Huizucar and Santa Cruz de Roma in Panchimalco are among the few surviving buildings of the colonial era in El Salvador.

The area along the West Bank of the Nile at Luxor contains some of the most important archaeological sites in the world.

For more than two decades, famed author Ernest Hemingway occupied Finca Vigia, a hilltop villa 20 kilometers east of Havana.