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Located in the Messak Plateau in southwest Libya near the borders of Algieria and Niger, Wadi Mathendous contains some of the world’s oldest rock art.

Located about 70 kilometers north of Petra, Khirbet et-Tannur is one of the best-preserved and most intact examples of a Nabataean open-air sanctuary.

The Jordan River lay at the heart of millennia of history, religion, and culture.

The Viscontian bridge-dam in Valeggio sul Mincio is a remnant of a larger defense system put in place by Count Gian Galeazzo Visconti, when he ruled Lombardy in the late fourteenth century.

Transhumance, the seasonal moving of sheep across vast swaths of grazing lands, has been an essential part of traditional Italian agricultural life since Roman times.

The Kotagede Heritage District was the fifteenth- to sixteenth-century capital of the Islamic Mataram kingdom in Indonesia.

Founded between the Jhelum River and Dal Lake in the mid-third century BC, the city of Srinagar reached its apogee in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

Jantar Mantar is one of the world's most accurate pre-modern observatories, and attests eighteenth-century efforts to improve understanding of planetary and other cosmic movements.

Established by the Chettiars, a caste of traders who flourished in nineteenth-century India, Chettinad is famous for its opulent palaces and temples.

A center of power during two critical periods in the history of Maya civilization—the Late Preclassic (300 BC-AD 250).

The Mohammadali House was constructed around 1900 in Addis Ababa, 14 years after the city's founding, and only eight years after Emperor Menelik II declared it the Ethiopian capital.

Located in old Massawa, the Derbush Tomb is one of the city's oldest Islamic monuments.