On a high, dry plateau on the southern coast of Peru, one of the most enigmatic works of the ancient world lies etched into the desert floor. Across kilometres of

Nearly 6,000 years ago in Thessaly, a community built its home as a series of nested stone rings converging on a central hall.

High on a hill above the meeting of two of Russia’s greatest rivers, the mighty Volga and the Oka, stands one of the most impressive fortresses in all of the

On the floodplain of the Niger River in Mali stand the mounds of a city that rewrote the history of Africa, the oldest known urban center south of the Sahara,

Before La Venta, before the Maya, before every great civilization of ancient Mexico, there was a capital on the Gulf coast where the first colossal stone heads of the Americas

Deep in the Bavarian Alps, in a secluded valley surrounded by forested mountains, stands the smallest but perhaps the most perfect of the palaces built by King Ludwig II of

At the foot of Edinburgh’s ancient Royal Mile, where the medieval streets of the old town give way to open parkland beneath a dramatic volcanic hill, stands the official residence

In the town of Kokand, in the fertile Fergana Valley of eastern Uzbekistan, a long tiled facade rises above a broad approach like a wall of jewelry. This is the

High on a wooded crag above the town of Sintra, wrapped for much of the year in the mists that roll off the Atlantic, stands one of the most extraordinary

A short distance from Lisbon, in the town that gave it its name, stands a palace that seems to have drifted straight out of eighteenth-century France and settled improbably on