Founded in 1611, the sprawling Novi Dvori estate 17 kilometers west of Zagreb was redesigned by its most famous occupant, Ban Josef Jelacˇi´c, governor of Croatia from 1848 until 1859.
A rare surviving example of a traditional walled Yunnan village compound in southwestern China, Tuanshan was founded as a mining center in the late fourteenth century.
An extraordinary domestic complex that spans the equivalent of several city blocks, Lu Mansion is the best preserved traditional Chinese residential complex of its type in southeast China.
The largest town on the former postal road between Beijing and Datong, Cockcrow was constructed in 1420 to protect the military and public post stations in the northwest region of the Chinese empire.
Settled 2,500 years ago and located in an ancient oasis once supported by the San Pedro River, Tulor Village is the most important of a suite of ancient villages in the Atacama Desert AD 300.
Cerros Pintados, or "painted hills," is an extraordinary site that boasts more than 350 geoglyphs that were rendered on the region's barren hills between AD 500 and 1450.
As the capital of the fifteenth-century Bengal ruler Isa Khan, and once an important trading and political center, Sonargaon boasts architecture of the Sultanate, Mughal, and colonial periods.
Long known as "the cradle of civilization," Iraq is home to more than 10,000 cultural heritage sites, including Sumar, where evidence of the earliest writings in the world are preserved.
The former Huntington Hartford Gallery of Modern Art, known for decades as 2 Columbus Circle, was designed by Edward Durell Stone, one of America's most prolific architects, and built in 1964.
The towns of Pitigliano, Sorano, Manciano, and Civita di Bagnoregio lie balanced on the crests of steep Italian hills, built into the tufa (or tuff) bedrock, a soft stone formed from volcanic ash.