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The medieval Church of the Virgin in Timotesubani was built during the reign of Queen Tamar (r 1184-1213), the golden age of the Georgian kingdom.

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.

Hierakonpolis was the Predynastic capital of Upper Egypt, and grew to prominence in the mid-third millennium BC Dominating the site is an imposing structure built of unfired mud-brick.

The highest concentration of historic houses and structures in the coastal city of Guayaquil is in the neighborhood of Las Peñas.

Built in 1316, St. Ann’s Church stands at the foot of the Charles Bridge in the Old Town of Prague.

Founded in the twelfth century by Magifico of Hroznata to administer to a scarcely populated region in the Bohemian borderlands, Chotěšov Monastery was at the epicenter of religious conflict.

The nineteenth century Calzada del Cerro in Havana, Cuba, is a sinuous colonnaded street that stretches more than three kilometers from Old Havana to the barrio of El Cerro.

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.

The rusting hulks of machinery and the deserted ghost towns of the Humberstone and Santa Laura mining complexes are among the last vestiges of the company towns of Chile's saltpeter industry.

Built in 1894, this is a testament to the wealth and pride of the local community that had flourished for more than five centuries after its arrival from Spain in the fifteenth century.

Twenty-six churches were built between 1630 and 1780 at Voskopojë, situated along the trade route from Venice to Constantinople in southeastern Albania.

Rising out of the barren landscape like sentinels before the snowcapped mountains of the Hindu Kush, the minarets of Ghazni are among the last vestiges of the great Ghaznavid Empire.