Tlatelolco was Tenochtitlan’s twin Aztec city, home to a marketplace that awed the conquistadors and the site of the empire’s final stand.

On the wooded eastern edge of Nara, past a great wooden gate guarded by two glowering giants, rises one of the most extraordinary buildings ever raised in wood. Inside the

Imagine a ruler who, during his illness, had Muslim, Christian and Jewish subjects all praying for his recovery with their holy books in their hands. After his death, prayers should

High on a great limestone hill above the fairy-tale spires and red roofs of Tallinn stands one of the most historically significant castles in all of the Baltic. Toompea Castle

On a small island in a shining Lithuanian lake, reached by a wooden footbridge and doubled in the still water below, stands one of the most magical castles in all

In the green and rolling hills of the Zagorje region in the north of Croatia, rising white and turreted above its own tranquil lake, stands one of the most beautiful

With my friend Altançeçeg (golden flower) in Mongolia. Mongolian names come from history, nature and traditions; Unlike many countries, Turkish names are all meaningful, as are the names of other

On the banks of the River Boyne, in the green heart of County Meath, stands the largest Anglo-Norman castle in all of Ireland. Trim Castle sprawls across a vast site

Some places earn their fame twice. Troy earned it first as a story whispered across three thousand years, and then again as a low, wind-scoured mound in northwestern Turkey where

On a great hill wrapped almost entirely by a loop of the Yantra River, in the beautiful town of Veliko Tarnovo in northern Bulgaria, stands one of the most important