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Fez was also the location of two well known temples, Rabbi Shlomo Ibn Danan Synagogue, built and founded by the Ibn Danan family, and the nearby Mansano Synagogue.

Mamluk sultan Qa’itbay’s fountain-school complex was constructed in 1477 in central Cairo.

The best-preserved remnant of Warsaw’s once densely populated Jewish district consists of four large tenement buildings near Grzybowski Square.

One of the largest concentrations of Bauhaus architecture is located on the Israeli coast of the Mediterranean Sea.

In a fertile valley in southeastern Peru, at an elevation of 3,400 meters, the Incas established the important settlement of Cusco in the twelfth century.

Beginning in the early 20th century, Belgian railroad, customs, and maritime interests converged at Tour and Taxis, a model transportation hub designed by architect Van Humbeek.

More than 300 prisons around the world were based on the design and system used at Eastern State Penitentiary.

The neighborhood of Albayzin in Granada, Spain, contains several Moorish houses, some dating to the period of the Alhambra, many of which were built in the 16th century.

The “visiting” chapels created by the Spanish to evangelize the indigenous Maya populations in the Yucatán region of Mexico are known, collectively, as the Capillas de Indios, or Indian Chapels.

For nearly 350 years, the San Juan de Ulúa Fort in Veracruz served as the primary military stronghold of the Spanish Empire in the Americas.

King Minh Mang, the second ruler of the Nguyen Dynasty, governed southern and central Vietnam from 1820 to 1840.

The Taj Mahal is the tallest Mughal tomb ever built and is considered to be the single greatest work of Mughal architecture.