DURRE'S CHAPEL

BASILICA OF EREROUK

BELVEDERE GARDENS

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QUINTA DA BOA VISTA

SÃO NICOLAU

IVANOVO ROCK CHAPELS

SAINT STEPHEN'S CHURCH

CHURNING OF THE SEA OF MILK GALLERY ROOF CONSERVATION PROJECT

The Churning of the Sea of Milk Gallery, located in the Temple complex of Angkor Wat, displays a spectacular 70 meters of intricately sculpted bas-reliefs at Angkor Wat, which are part of (Learn More)

PREAH KHAN TEMPLE

The Preah Khan temple complex situated at the northern edge of the Angkor Archaeological Park is one of the most significant buildings erected during the ancient Khmer empire. (Learn More)

EASTER ISLAND (RAPA NUI)

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SAN FRANCISCO CHURCH

JUANQINZHAI IN THE QIANLONG GARDEN

The Qianlong Emperor, fifth of China’s Qian Dynasty, reigned from 1735 to 1796 and was the longest-serving ruler in China. (Learn More)

PUNING TEMPLE STATUES

SHAXI MARKET AREA

XIANNONGTAN (TEMPLE OF AGRICULTURE)

DUCAL PALACE

MARITIME QUARANTINE-LAZARETI

CÁSLAV SYNAGOGUE

Cáslav Synagogue in the central Czech Republic was constructed in 1899 to serve the town’s Jewish population. The building was designed by Wilhelm Stiassny, an architect from Vienna. (Learn More)

CHURCH OF THE HOLY GHOST

JICIN SYNAGOGUE

LEDNICE AND VALTICE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE

Over the centuries, the rural countryside between the southern Moravian towns of Lednice and Valtice had been a landscape divided by shifting national borders, scarred by conflicts like the Thirty (Learn More)

PORTA COELI MONASTERY

ST. ANN'S CHURCH

Built in 1316, St. Ann’s Church stands at the foot of the Charles Bridge in the Old Town of Prague. (Learn More)

TROJA CHATEAU

CEREMONIAL ENCLOSURE OF KHASEKHEMWY AT HIERAKONPOLIS

Hierakonpolis was the Predynastic capital of Upper Egypt, and grew to prominence in the mid-third millennium BC. (Learn More)

JAMA’A Al -AQSUNQUR (BLUE MOSQUE)

The Blue Mosque is the largest mosque in the Bab al-Wazir district of Cairo. (Learn More)

KHAYRBEK MOSQUE

SULTAN QA'ITBAY COMPLEX

THE MORTUARY TEMPLE OF AMENHOTEP III

The mortuary temple of Amenhotep III was erected between 1390 and 1353 B.C. for the New Kingdom Pharoah, Amenhotep III. (Learn More)

AMERICAN CATHEDRAL IN PARIS

BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE L'ARSENAL

CHANCELLERIE D'ORLEANS

CHÂTEAU DE COMMARQUE

CHURCH OF SAINT-SULPICE DE FAVIÈRES

COUVENT DE LA REINE

DÉSERT DE RETZ

HÔTEL DE TALLEYRAND

Located at the heart of Paris near the Place de la Concorde, the Hôtel de Talleyrand is among the most important historic European buildings under the stewardship of the US Department of Stat (Learn More)

HÔTEL D’ASTIER (HOSPICE)

LACOSTE SCHOOL

POTAGER DU ROI

SAINT PIERRE CATHEDRAL

SAINT-EMILION MONOLITHIC CHURCH

SALON DE MUSIQUE, BIBLIOTÈQUE DE L’ARSENAL

Much of the Arsenal was constructed in the 17th and 18th centuries. (Learn More)

CHURCH OF THE VIRGIN

IKORTA CHURCH OF THE ARCHANGEL

PITARETI MONASTERY

CASTLE HARTENFELS

Castle Hartenfels was constructed in Torgau, a town on the banks of the River Elbe, in the late 15th through mid-16th centuries. (Learn More)

GARTENREICH DESSAU-WÖRLITZ

NEW PALACE IN SANSSOUCI PARK

SCHAEZLER PALACE

KAHAL SHALOM SYNAGOGUE

NARANJO

MÁD SYNAGOGUE

PÉCS SYNAGOGUE

CHAMPANER-PAVAGADH

DELHI HERITAGE CITY

HAMPI ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE

JAISALMER FORT

NAKO TEMPLES

PARADESI SYNAGOGUE

SAINT ANNE CHURCH

TAJ MAHAL

TAMANSARI WATER CASTLE

NINEVEH AND NIMRUD PALACES

BROWNE CLAYTON MONUMENT

DAMER HOUSE

HEADFORT HOUSE

ANCIENT POMPEII

The ancient Roman towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum and villas near the Bay of Naples were buried by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in August A.D. (Learn More)

BIBLIOTECA MARCIANA

Venice’s Biblioteca Marciana stands as a symbol of the city’s wealth and its long tradition of civic investment in intellectual and artistic pursuits. (Learn More)

CARDINAL ANGELO MARIO QUERINI BY BARTOLOMEO NAZZARI

CA’ZENOBIO

CHAINS BRIDGE

CINQUE TERRE

DUOMO, THEODELINDA'S CHAPEL

Monza Cathedral, built in the early 14th century, stands on the ruins of a late-6th-century oraculum, or “queen’s chapel,” reputedly commissioned by the Lombard Queen The (Learn More)

FLORENCE SYNAGOGUE

GROTTOES OF SAN MICHELE

JACQUARD GARDEN

LAST SUPPER BY BASSANO AT THE VILLA BORGHESE

MADONNA DEL CARMELO BY GIAMBATTISTA TIEPOLO AT THE PINACOTECA DI BRERA

MADONNA DI LORETO CHURCH

MONUMENTAL CEMETERY

ORSANMICHELE

PALAZZO DUCALE

Facing the Biblioteca Marciana, adjacent to the Basilica San Marco, the Palazzo Ducale commands a preeminent place in the geography of Venice. (Learn More)

PIEVE DI SAN BRIZIO

PITTI PALACE

QUERINI STAMPALIA LIBRARY

The Library at the Fondazione Querini Stampalia is one of several facilities housed within this cultural institution. (Learn More)

ROYAL PALACE OF VENICE (CORRER MUSEUM)

SALUZZO SYNAGOGUE

SAN GIORGIO DEGLI SCHIAVONI (SCUOLA DALMATA)

SAN GIOVANNI FORCIVITAS

SAN GREGORIO

SAN MOISÈ CHURCH

SAN PETRONIO

SAN POLO CHURCH

SAN SEBASTIANO

SANT' AGOSTINO CHURCH

SANTA CROCE

SANTA EUFEMIA CHURCH IN GIUDECCA

SANTA MARIA ANTIQUA CHURCH

Located at the base of the Palatine Hill in the Roman Forum, the sixth-century church of Santa Maria Antiqua is one of the earliest surviving Christian monuments in Rome. (Learn More)

SANTA MARIA ASSUNTA IN TORCELLO

Torcello, an island at the northern end of the Venetian Lagoon, is home to the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta, established in 639 according to the wishes of the Byzantine Emperor Heraclius and th (Learn More)

SANTA MARIA DEL GIGLIO CHURCH (SANTA MARIA ZOBENIGO)

Much of the current design for Santa Maria del Giglio, also known as Santa Maria Zobenigo after the family that founded the church in the ninth century, dates to a 1680-83 renovation by the archite (Learn More)

SANTA MARIA GLORIOSA DEI FRARI CHURCH

SANTA MARIA NOVELLA

SANTI QUATTRO CORONATI CLOISTER

SCOLA CANTON

The Scola Canton, constructed in 1532, shortly after the enforced segregation of Jews in the Venetian Ghetto Nuovo, stands as one of the oldest and most important extant Jewish institutions in the (Learn More)

SCUOLA GRANDE DI SAN GIOVANNI EVANGELISTA

The Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista is among the oldest and most prominent of the Venetian scuole, religious confraternities that sponsored acts of charity and were ultimately re (Learn More)

TEMPLE OF HERCULES

TORLONIA JEWISH CATACOMBS

VILLA DEI VESCOVI

NAGOYA CASTLE

PETRA ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE—BYZANTINE CHURCH

PETRA ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE—SIQ WATER PROJECT

QUSAYR 'AMRA

Qusayr ‘Amra, located 85 km to the east of Amman, is a small residence discovered by the Czech traveler Alois Musil in 1898. (Learn More)

GREEN SYNAGOGUE

JONISKIS SYNAGOGUE COMPLEX

SLIVNICA MONASTERY

APOSTLE SANTIAGO CHURCH IN NURIO

CAROLINA HACIENDA (MAIN HOUSE)

COLEGIO DE LAS VIZCAINAS

JESÚS NAZARENO CHURCH IN ATOTONILCO

Constructed by Father Felipe Neri Alfaro, the Sanctuary of Jesus Nazareno of Atotonilco is famous for its murals that reflect a syncretism of Catholic religious iconography mixed with native religi (Learn More)

MAYA SITES OF THE YUCATAN PENISULA

MODERN MURALS (FEAST OF THE SANTA CRUZ BY MONTENEGRO) COLEGIO DE SAN PEDRO Y SAN PABLO

NATIONAL AUTONOMOUS UNIVERSITY

PALAFOXIANA LIBRARY

SAN FRANCISCO DE TZINTZUNTZAN CONVENT

SAN JUAN BAUTISTA DE COIXTLAHUACA

SAN JUAN DE ULÚA FORT

SANTA PRISCA PARISH CHURCH

SECRETARIAT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION

YAXCHILÁN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE

RABBI SHLOMO IBN DANAN AND MANSANO SYNAGOGUES

GOKARNA TEMPLE COMPLEX

MAHA VISHNU TEMPLE

CUSCO HISTORIC CENTER

LARAOS TERRACES

LOS PINCHUDOS ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE

SAN CRISTOBAL CHURCH IN RAPAZ

SAN PEDRO APÓSTOL DE ANDAHUAYLILLAS CHURCH

San Pedro Apóstol was built by Jesuits in the 16th century over a pre-Columbian huaca, or ceremonial space. (Learn More)

KABAYAN MUMMY CAVES

JEWISH HOUSE OF PRAYER

PINCZÓW SYNAGOGUE

SAINT STANISLAS CHURCH

TEMPEL SYNAGOGUE

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WHITE STORK SYNAGOGUE

FUNCHAL CATHEDRAL

QUELUZ PALACE GARDEN

SÃO MIGUEL - O ANJO LIGHTHOUSE

BISHOP'S PALACE

BRÜCKENTHAL PALACE

EVANGELICAL CHURCH AT BIERTAN

ROMANO CATHOLIC CHURCH

ARKHANGELSKOYE STATE MUSEUM

CATHERINE PALACE - AGATE PAVILION

CHURCH OF OUR SAVIOR ON THE MARKETPLACE AND ROSTOV VELIKY HISTORIC CENTER

GRAND CHORAL SYNAGOGUE

KIZHI POGOST

NEW JERUSALEM MONASTERY

Founded under Patriarch Nikon, the 17th-century New Jerusalem Monastery was meant to evoke the Holy Land and serve as a pilgrimage site. (Learn More)

PAANAJÄRVI VILLAGE

RUSSAKOV CLUB

VIIPURI LIBRARY

BASIL THE GREAT CHURCH

MUSEUM OF THE SPIS REGION

SPIŠSKÉ PODHRADIE SYNAGOGUE

CARTUJA DE SANTA MARIA DE MIRAFLORES

Cartuja de Santa Maria de Miraflores in Burgos was founded by John II, King of Castilla y Leon following the destruction by fire of an earlier monastery. (Learn More)

CONVENTO DE LA CORIA

Trujillo lies about 170 miles west of Madrid in a rugged and barren area of Spain known as Extremadura. (Learn More)

FRANCISCO PIZARRO HOUSE MUSEUM (CASA MUSEO DE FRANCISCO PIZARRO)

MOORISH HOUSES OF GRANADA

PAZO DE SAN MIGUEL DAS PENAS

ROYAL MONASTERY OF GUADALUPE

SAN CLEMENTE MONASTERY

SANTA MARIA LA MAYOR IN TORO

TOLEDO CATHEDRAL (OCHAVO CHAPEL AND SAN BLAS CHAPEL)

CITADEL OF ALEPPO

One of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, Aleppo preserves remnants of more than four millennia of Near Eastern history. (Learn More)

APHRODISIAS ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE

Aphrodisias, named after its patron goddess Aphrodite, was founded in the 2nd century B.C. on the site of a rural sanctuary of Aphrodite. (Learn More)

CENTRAL IZMIR SYNAGOGUES

EPHESOS ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE

HAGIA SOPHIA

MOUNT NEMRUT ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE

RED CHURCH

CHORAL SYNAGOGUE

TSORI GILOD SOCIETY SYNAGOGUE (L'VIV SYNAGOGUE)

BATTLE OF WATERLOO MODEL BY SIBORNE

CHRIST CHURCH SPITALFIELDS

DITCHLEY PARK

GREYFRIARS KIRKYARD

LINCOLN CATHEDRAL

PRINCES ROAD SYNAGOGUE

SAINT FRANCIS CHURCH AND GORTON MONASTERY

SAINT MARY'S CHURCH IN THORNHAM PARVA

SAINT PAUL'S CATHEDRAL

SELBY ABBEY

ST. GEORGE’S BLOOMSBURY

Nicholas Hawksmoor, protégé of Sir Christopher Wren, built six churches resulting from the 1711 Act of Parliament, which demanded 50 new churches in London. St. (Learn More)

STRAWBERRY HILL

WENTWORTH CASTLE

ADOBE MISSIONS OF NEW MEXICO

The adobe churches of New Mexico were built as part of the Franciscan missionary campaign in the New World. (Learn More)

DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH

Built between 1835 and 1837, the Dutch Reformed Church in Newburgh, New York, sits on a bluff overlooking the Hudson River and is a reminder of the wealth that came early to settlements in New York (Learn More)

GOLDEN GATE PARK CONSERVATORY OF FLOWERS

The Conservatory of Flowers is the oldest surviving structure in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, and one of only a few large Victorian greenhouses in the United States. (Learn More)

HISTORIC ROUTE 66

Route 66, once the primary highway from America’s interior to the West Coast, has played a now-legendary role in U.S. history since its designation in 1926. (Learn More)

HOLY CROSS NEIGHBORHOOD OF THE NINTH WARD

LAFAYETTE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

LOWER MANHATTAN EMERGENCY PRESERVATION FUND

MESA VERDE NATIONAL PARK

MIDDLETON-PINCKNEY HOUSE

NEW YORK STUDIO SCHOOL

RIVERVIEW HIGH SCHOOL

SAN ESTEBAN DEL REY MISSION

SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO MISSION