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From its strategic perch of over 3,300 feet (1,000 meters), this austere medieval town protected the Spanish territories from the Moors.

Surveying the endless expanse of deserts of northeastern Egypt, the Old Mosque of Shali Fortress is perched peacefully atop a small hill in Siwa Oasis, a remote village south of the Mediterranean Sea.

Masked by decay and the dense maze of its urban context, the façade of Ujumbe Palace, belies its historical, political, and architectural significance as well as its interior splendor.

Emerging from the steel-blue waters of the Caribbean Sea, the fortresses of San Fernando and San José stand sentinel over Cartagena Bay's inlet.

Deep within the Central Cordillera of the Andes in northeastern Colombia, Santa Fe de Antioquia rises more than 1,650 feet (500 meters) above sea level, between the Cauca and Tonusco rivers.

While traveling with his disciples, Tsangpa Gyare, the Tibetan founder of the Drukpa Kagyud sect of Buddhism, saw nine dragons rise out of the earth and fill the sky with flowers.

A convent for cloistered nuns for over two centuries, the Convento-Museo Santa Teresa has preserved the majority of its original architecture details and decorative elements.

Scattered across the Santa Cruz region of Bolivia are six Jesuit Missions of Chiquitos, standing as cultural, religious, and artistic centers of their communities.

The traditional markets of Suq al-Qaysariya have been an intrinsic element of the urban fabric of Muharraq, Bahrain's second largest city, for the past 200 years.

In the early 20th century, tuberculosis swept through Europe, affecting the urban poor, whose living conditions offered the perfect environment for the transmission and spread of the deadly disease.

Vienna's Werkbundsiedlung, a workers' association housing complex, is one of the few Werkbund ensembles from the 1920s and 1930s that remains intact.

The vestiges of the 13th-century Aghjots Monastery complex rest serenely on a slope of a gorge near Garni Village in Armenia.