Rising in a striking silhouette of black-walled keeps and steep gables above its moat, with the snow-capped peaks of the Japanese Alps as a backdrop, Matsumoto Castle is one of

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Towering over the blue-washed houses of the old city of Jodhpur, rising sheer from a great cliff of rock in the desert of Rajasthan, Mehrangarh is one of the mightiest

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In the deserts of Sudan, along the banks of the Nile far south of Egypt, rise scores of steep, narrow pyramids, the burial places of the kings and queens of

Mesa Verde in Colorado holds North America’s finest cliff dwellings, including Cliff Palace and Balcony House, built by Ancestral Puebloan farmers between 1190 and 1280 CE.

On the broad plain west of Yerevan, within sight of the snow-capped peak of Mount Ararat, rises a modest hill that holds one of the oldest and most fascinating archaeological