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More inclusive tourism planning and visitor management at an iconic archaeological park can help address economic challenges facing surrounding communities.

Birds wheeling above a fishing boat, mounted horsemen, and competing athletes are among the painted scenes covering the walls and ceilings in some 200 Etruscan tombs.

Prisoners confined to Terra del Sole's nine cells passed time carving messages into the walls or rendering scenes of the city visible through their window bars.

Design and construction of the Boboli Gardens behind the Palazzo Pitti began in 1549 under Cosimo I de Medici.

Soon after British colonization, the first Fijian capital was established at Levuka in 1877.

The churches of Arani and Callapa are but two examples of the scores of adobe churches in Bolivia that face extinction, despite designation as National Monuments.

Until about twenty years ago, the historic center of Banská Štiavnica was a thriving mining town with 3,000 residents.

The village of Irkutsk, which in 1686 became the capital of Oriental Siberia, was an important stop on commercial trade routes between the Orient and the Occident.

Until its independence from the Soviets in 1991, the Abava River valley, a region that developed during the Middle Ages along the route to Germany, had remained immune to the modern age.

Paradoxically, Vat Sisaket is the oldest and newest monastery in the Laotian capital.

Hungarians wanting to take the cure in the late 18th and 19th centuries went to the baths at Balatonfüred to soak in restorative carbon-rich waters.

The unused country house is a regular sight throughout the Czech Republic.