Spread across the summit of a great hill above the plains of southern Rajasthan, covering an area so vast that a whole city once flourished within its walls, Chittorgarh is

Image: Leonid Plotkin The most spectacular Elikli rock from the rocky area of Cholpan Ata, where every stone is adorned with Scythian – Kun traces. There are many more rock

In the old city of Hyderabad, Chowmahalla was the official seat of the Nizams, its durbar hall ablaze with Belgian chandeliers, where new rulers were enthroned.

Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen is the only building in the world that houses a nation’s parliament, supreme court and royal reception rooms together. Here is how to explore its history, tapestries, ruins and grand halls.

Deep in the forests of the Emsland in northwestern Germany lies one of the most unusual palaces in Europe. Clemenswerth is a hunting lodge built in the shape of a

The Cooch Behar Palace in northern West Bengal is a grand European-style mansion crowned with a soaring dome, built by a reforming maharaja of the Koch dynasty. Explore its architecture, history and frontier setting.

If you had to design the perfect fairy-tale castle, you might well end up with something very like Corvin. Rising above a river in the Transylvanian town of Hunedoara, with

In the very centre of modern Seoul, ringed by glass towers and the rush of a capital city, sits a palace unlike any other in Korea. Deoksugung is a compound

According to some scientists, the center of the ability to see the future is the brain center that we call diansephalus and where the sympathetic nervous system unites.This nervous system

Imagine a palace that turns its back on centuries of tradition and stares boldly across the water toward Europe. That is Dolmabahce, the great nineteenth-century residence of the Ottoman sultans,