More than 6,000 years ago in Bulgaria, a fortified town grew rich boiling brine into salt, and may be the oldest town in Europe.

A French-inspired summer palace built for Bulgaria’s monarchs near Varna, Euxinograd hides its elegant halls, celebrated park, and vineyards behind its gates.

On the Black Sea coast just north of the Bulgarian city of Varna, set amid a vast and beautiful park that runs down to the water, stands one of the

“While there were uprisings in Albania and Arabia, Armenians were being massacred by Kurds on September 29, 1911.” – (The War in Europe, 199 / New York – 1914) While

High on the plateau of northern Ethiopia, where the air is cool and the mountains stretch to the horizon, stands a cluster of stone castles that seem to have wandered

In the highlands of Ethiopia, in the city of Gondar, rises a sight that astonishes almost everyone who sees it: a complex of stone castles and palaces that would not

In a quiet Corsican valley stand the statue-menhirs of Filitosa — carved stone figures with faces and weapons, raised thousands of years ago and later built over.

On a bend of the Danube where the river narrows and roars through the Iron Gates gorge between modern Serbia and Romania, a Mesolithic community built trapezoid-shaped houses facing the

On the eastern side of the great central square of Mexico City, the vast plaza known as the Zocalo, stretches a long facade of reddish stone that has stood at

Versailles may be the most famous of France’s royal palaces, but it is not the oldest or, some would say, the most loved by the monarchs who lived in it.