On the western edge of Munich, a palace stretches its pale wings so far across the landscape that you cannot take it in with a single glance. Nymphenburg, the “Nymph’s

There is a castle in the far east of Finland that looks as though it were dreamed up for a fairy tale and then somehow built in solid grey stone.

Image: Vladimir Shibanov

On the Oka River, Old Ryazan was a wealthy Kievan Rus capital of churches and treasures, until the Mongol invasion of 1237 destroyed it in one of Russia’s great tragedies.

Long before the pyramids, long before Stonehenge, and by some estimates as much as six thousand six hundred years ago, the Gunditjmara people of southeastern Australia were already engineering channels,

In the Sacred Valley of the Incas, high in the Peruvian Andes, the town of Ollantaytambo rises in great stone terraces up a steep mountainside. Part fortress, part temple, part

In a peaceful green valley in the western Peloponnese of Greece lies Olympia, the sanctuary where, for over a thousand years, the greatest athletic festival of the ancient world was

An old garment from the “Omaha” Indians living in northeastern Nebraska. This garment, made of leather, silk, beads and bones, is decorated with a crescent and a star. Since they

April Fools’ Day In 1564, King of France IX Charles started the year on the first day of January. Earlier The start of the year, common in Europe, was March

Near Trujillo, Peru, Huaca del Sol was torn apart by Spanish treasure hunters while its twin, Huaca de la Luna, survived intact under centuries of deliberate temple burial.