On the desert coast of northern Peru sprawls Chan Chan, the largest city ever built of mud brick and the greatest metropolis of pre-Columbian South America outside the Inca realm.

In the heart of Seoul, tucked against the wooded hills at the northern edge of the old city, lies a palace that many consider the most beautiful of all the

Tucked into the green heart of Seoul, next to the grander and more famous Changdeokgung, lies a palace with one of the gentlest and most poignant characters of all the

A line of thirteen stone towers in the Peruvian desert forms the oldest known solar observatory in the Americas, tracking the sun across the year with astonishing precision over 2,000 years ago.

On a rocky hill rising above the great park at the heart of Mexico City stands a building unlike any other in the Americas. Chapultepec Castle, with its terraces, towers,

On Christmas Day in the year 800, in the old basilica of Saint Peter in Rome, a tall Frankish king knelt in prayer and the Pope stepped forward and placed

Set a little apart from the noise of central Berlin, at the end of a long forecourt guarded by a green equestrian statue, stands the largest and most magnificent palace

High above the little town of Amboise, on a great rocky spur overlooking the River Loire, stands one of the most important royal residences in the history of France. The

Not every great castle is a fairy-tale palace. Some are meant to frighten, and few do it better than the Chateau d’Angers. Rising above the River Maine in the west

Rise early on a misty morning in the Loire Valley, and you may catch the Château de Chambord floating above the mist like a vision from a dream, its forest