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The Kariye Museum - originally Church of Christ in the Chora Monastery - houses a wealth of mosaics and frescos commissioned by the statesman and scholar Theodore Metochites (ca 1316-1321).

Túcume Archaeological Site is located on Peru’s arid north coast and stretches across 220 hectares.

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.

The Iraq Cultural Heritage Conservation Initiative was formed to protect Iraqi historic monuments like the ancient palaces of Nineveh and Nimrud from damages related to war.

Twelve centuries of art and architecture are chronicled in the buildings found in the hills of northwestern Spain.

San Francisco de Tzintzuntzan Convent was the first foundation of the Franciscan Order in New Spain created for the conversion of the indigenous population to Christianity.

The Helsinki-Malmi Airport was one of the most modern aerodromes of its time, but today plans are in motion to turn the site into a housing development.

Quito’s most opulent historic theater was reopened as the result of the conservation efforts that followed a disastrous fire.

Further conservation work is needed at the Temple of Augustus and Rome, which contains the two most complete inscriptions of the Deeds of the Divine Augustus in the world.

Built between 1928 and 1930 and designed by Moisei Ginzburg and Ignatii Milinis for employees of the National Finance Ministry, the Narkomfin building is a seminal monument of Modern architecture.

The second oldest Protestant church in Canada, St. John's was built in 1753 to serve as a meeting house for its local community in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.

The Dampier archipelago stretches from northwestern Australia into the Indian Ocean, its landscape marked by crags and ridges that were formed by the erosion of Precambrian lava activity.