For centuries the name Timbuktu has stood, in the imagination of the outside world, for the most remote place on earth. The reality is even more remarkable: a city on

On the edge of the Sahara in eastern Algeria lie the ruins of Timgad, one of the most complete Roman towns anywhere in the world. Founded from nothing as a

Tiwanaku is an ancient pre-Inca city near Lake Titicaca in Bolivia, famous for its carved Gate of the Sun and the precise stonework of Pumapunku.

On the windswept high plain of Bolivia, nearly four thousand metres above sea level and close to the shore of Lake Titicaca, stand the ruins of Tiwanaku. Here, in one

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

Stand on a hill above the meeting point of the Bosphorus and the Golden Horn, where Europe and Asia gaze at each other across the water, and you find yourself

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