Ask most people when modern England really began and you’ll get a shrug. Push a historian into a corner, though, and a surprising number will point to a single grey

Some monuments impress by their scale, but A Famosa moves you by its survival. In the heart of the Malaysian city of Melaka stands a single weathered stone gateway, the

On the edge of the Sahara, where the great Atlas Mountains give way to the desert, rises one of the most extraordinary and beautiful fortified villages in the world: Aït

On a lofty hill in the green highlands of northern Jordan, commanding a tremendous sweep of the Jordan Valley and the three great wadis that descend toward it, stands one

High above the harbour of Oslo, on a rocky headland where the city meets the sea, stands a great grey fortress that has guarded the Norwegian capital for more than

High among the crags of the Alborz mountains of northern Iran, upon a narrow spine of rock that rises sheer from the valley floor, there cling the ruins of one

There is a good chance you have already seen Alnwick Castle, even if you have never been to Northumberland. When the young wizards of Hogwarts had their first flying lesson,

Rising in tiers of honey-colored sandstone and white marble upon a forested hill above the still waters of the Maota Lake, in the desert state of Rajasthan in northern India,

High upon the southern slopes of Mount Aragats, the great extinct volcano that is the highest mountain in Armenia, at an altitude where the clouds themselves come to rest upon

Some places overwhelm you not with a single monument but with an entire vanished world, and Angkor Thom is one of them. The last great capital of the mighty Khmer