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CHURCH OF OUR IMMACULATE LADY

In the late 17th century, during the reign of Archbishop Johann Ernst von Thun, the architect Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, perhaps the greatest Austrian Baroque architect, designed a harmoni (Learn More)

HISTORIC CENTER OF SALVADOR DE BAHIA

Founded in 1549 as Brazil’s first capital, and the seat of the Portuguese government for more than two centuries, today Salvador de Bahia is a metropolis with over three million inhabitants. (Learn More)

SAN FRANCISCO CONVENT

San Francisco Convent lies along the sandy coastline of northeastern Brazil in the historic town of Olinda, which was founded in 1535. Its economy was fueled by the sugar trade. (Learn More)

IVANOVO ROCK CHAPELS

Founded in the first half of the 13th century, the rock chapels near the village of Ivanovo constitute a remarkable Eastern Orthodox Hesychastic monastic complex. (Learn More)

BANTEAY CHHMAR TEMPLE OF JAYAVARMAN VII

A complex of eight temples deep in the Cambodian jungle, Banteay Chhmar was commissioned by the twelfth-century Khmer ruler Jayavarman VII in honor of five heroes, including his son, who died defen (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)—MOAI CONSERVATION PROJECT

A Polynesian volcanic island in the Pacific Ocean, at the southeastern most point of the Polynesian triangle, Easter Island—known locally as Rapa Nui—is a special territory of Chile that was annexe (Learn More)

EASTER ISLAND (RAPA NUI)—RANO RARAKU

Easter Island, one of the world’s most remote inhabited places, some 3,700 kilometers off the coast of South America, is home to an extraordinary archaeological heritage that spans over a thousand (Learn More)

OHEL RACHEL SYNAGOGUE

Jewish communities have existed in China for over 13 centuries, but today architectural traces are hard to find. (Learn More)

QIANLONG GARDEN CONSERVATION PROJECT

Occupying almost two acres in the northeast quadrant of the Forbidden City, the Qianlong Garden was built by the fourth emperor of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) to serve as a part of his planned ret (Learn More)

SHAXI MARKET AREA

The Shaxi Market Area, located in China’s Yunnan Province on the historic Tea and Horse Caravan Trail that links Tibet with Southeast Asia, is the most complete surviving example of a trading (Learn More)

XIANNONGTAN (TEMPLE OF AGRICULTURE)

The temple complex dedicated to Xiannong, the father of agriculture, was built in 1420 below the Forbidden City and adjacent to the famed Temple of Heaven in Beijing. (Learn More)

DUCAL PALACE

From the High Middle Ages through the 20th century, the Ducal Palace of Zadar stood witness to the evolution of the city and survived countless attacks and occupations. (Learn More)

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)

JERUSALEM SYNAGOGUE

Designed in 1903 by Viennese architect Wilhelm Stiassny and completed in 1906 by Alois Richter, Jerusalem Synagogue remains a religious and cultural center for the Jewish community of Prague. (Learn More)

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

Porta Coeli is a Cistercian monastery in Tišnov-Předklášteří, a small village near Brno in the Czech Republic. (Learn More)

ST. VITUS’ CATHEDRAL, PRAGUE CASTLE

Since its founding in 925 by Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia, the site of St. Vitus’ Cathedral has been the burial place of Czech rulers. (Learn More)

TROJA CHATEAU

In 1679, Count Václav Vojtech of Šternberk commissioned a grand, rural mansion that now rests on the outskirts of Prague. (Learn More)

LAS PEÑAS

The highest concentration of historic houses and structures in the coastal city of Guayaquil is in the neighborhood of Las Peñas. (Learn More)

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)

KARNAK TEMPLE

The Karnak temple complex at Luxor developed over more than 1,000 years, principally between the Twelfth and Twentieth Dynasties. (Learn More)

NEW GOURNA VILLAGE

New Gourna Village, an experimental earthen village on the West Bank of the Nile, is a testament to how the relationship between heritage and society is often fraught with multiple meanings and con (Learn More)

SULTAN QA'ITBAY COMPLEX

Mamluk sultan Qa’itbay’s fountain-school complex was constructed in 1477 in central Cairo. (Learn More)

THE MORTUARY TEMPLE OF AMENHOTEP III

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

ALBI CATHEDRAL

Sainte-Cécile Cathedral in Albi was built in the thirteenth century following the suppression of the Albigensian Heresy, centered in Albi, to convey the power of the Church to the populace. (Learn More)

CARPENTRAS SYNAGOGUE

Built in 1367, Carpentras Synagogue is one of the oldest synagogues in France, located in the capital of what was once called the Comtat Venaissin, the area surrounding Avignon in southeastern Fran (Learn More)

CHÂTEAU DE CHANTILLY

The Château de Chantilly sits at the confluence of the Oise and Seine Rivers in northern France and is a magnificent stone complex surrounded by manicured lawns, farms, ponds, and stables. (Learn More)

COUVENT DE LA VISITATION, CHAPELLE SAINT-JOSEPH, CHŒUR DES RELIGIEUSES

Started in 1648 and completed nine years later, the Couvent de la Visitation functioned as a base for the religious order of the Visitation until it was abandoned in 1792, following the French Revo (Learn More)

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)

For more than 300 years the Hôtel d’Astier de Montfaucon has served a variety of civic functions in the city of Ménerbes. (Learn More)

PFAFFENHOFEN SYNAGOGUE

Pfaffenhoffen Synagogue is visually and architecturally indistinguishable from its surrounding built environment, which is one of the reasons it is prized today. (Learn More)

SAINT SULPICE CHURCH

Saint–Sulpice was built over a 130-year period, beginning in 1646 during the regency of Queen Anne of Austria. (Learn More)

SALON DE MUSIQUE, BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE L’ARSENAL

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

IKORTA CHURCH OF THE ARCHANGEL

According to lapidary inscriptions on its exterior walls, King George III of Georgia commissioned the construction Ikorta Church in 1172. (Learn More)

PITARETI MONASTERY

Located some 25 some from Tbilisi, Pitareti Monastery sits in a secluded landscape surrounded by mountains. (Learn More)

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-WÖRLTZ

In 1765, a visionary prince, Leopold III Friedrich Franz of Anhalt-Dessau, collaborated with architect and art theorist Friedrich Wilhelm von Erdmannsdorff to develop Gartenreich Dessau-Wörlitz alo (Learn More)

KARL-THEODOR BRIDGE

Over more than 700 years, nine bridges were built in succession at a single spot along Europe’s Neckar River, where the waterway weaves through the German city of Heidelberg. (Learn More)

NEW PALACE IN SANSSOUCI PARK

Sanssouci, meaning “without care,” was the name given to the summer estate created by Frederick II of Prussia (1712-1786) starting in 1744. (Learn More)

SCHAEZLER PALACE

Schaezler Palace is a remarkable example of German Rococo architecture designed by Karl Albrech von Lespilliez, chief architect of the Bavarian royal court, for merchant and banker Benedikt Adam Fr (Learn More)

CAPITANES GENERALES PALACE

The city of Antigua was founded in 1543 in the valley of Panchoy, surrounded by the Agua, Fuego, and Acatenago volcanoes. (Learn More)

NARANJO

Naranjo, the second largest Maya city in Guatemala after Tikal, developed between 500 B.C. and A.D. 950, although the main period of construction took place during the Late Classic period (A.D. (Learn More)

MÁD SYNAGOGUE

Mád Synagogue, situated on top of a hill overlooking the majestic vineyards of the Tokaj Hegyalja region, is one of the oldest standing synagogues in Hungary. (Learn More)

BALAJI GHAT

Dating from 1735, Balaji Ghat is located on the banks of the Ganges River in Varanasi, one of the world’s oldest continuously occupied cities and an important Hindu pilgrimage destination. (Learn More)

CHAMPANER-PAVAGADH

In the 15th and 16th centuries, the city of Champaner was an important post along the trade route linking the states of Malwa and Gujarat in western India. (Learn More)

DWARKA DHEESH MANDIR TEMPLE

Dwarka Dheesh Mandir Temple is one of the oldest surviving haveli, or house-temple, complexes in Ahmedabad. (Learn More)

JAISALMER FORT

Built in 1156 by King Rawal Jaisal, Jaisalmer Fort dominates the countryside in the far northwestern corner of Rajasthan, near the border of India and Pakistan. (Learn More)

KRISHNA TEMPLE COMPLEX, HAMPI ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE

From the mid-14th century to 1565, Hampi was the capital of the Vijayanagara Empire, a powerful military state and an influential Hindu kingdom that ruled much of the southern half of the Indian su (Learn More)

MADHYA PRADESH CULTURAL HERITAGE PROJECT

Madhya Pradesh, the largest state in India, is located in the center of the country and is filled with heritage sites of great cultural importance chronicling the history of the region. (Learn More)

PARADESI SYNAGOGUE

Paradesi Synagogue, in the southern Indian port city of Kochi, is the oldest synagogue in India as well as the entire British Commonwealth. (Learn More)

SUMDA CHUN MONASTERY

Located at 12,700 feet above sea level in a remote part of the Himalayas, the village of Sumda Chun is accessible only by a 3- to 4-hour hike up a steep and winding river valley trail. (Learn More)

OMO HADA

Omo Hada is a rare surviving 18th-century traditional Indonesian village. (Learn More)

DAMER HOUSE

Built in the eighteenth-century for the wealthy Damer family, Damer House was constructed in the courtyard of the thirteenth-century Roscrea Castle. (Learn More)

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)

CAMPOSANTO

The Monumental Cemetery of Pisa was the final structure to be built on the Piazza del Duomo, following the cathedral, the baptistery, and the famous Leaning Tower. (Learn More)

CASINA FARNESE, PALATINE HILL

The Casina Farnese belonged to the greater Orti Farnesiani estate of the Farnese family during the 16th century. (Learn More)

CINQUE TERRE

Cinque Terre describes the Mediterranean coastline between Genoa and Tuscany, where the hills are carved into green terraces that descend toward the water. (Learn More)

GROTTOES OF SAN MICHELE

Along a narrow valley in the Picentini Mountains, the flowing water of the Tusiano River gradually excavated a deep natural cavern on the western slopes of Monte Raione. (Learn More)

LIMONAIA AT BOBOLI GARDENS AND GARDEN OF VILLA MEDICI AT CASTELLO

Design and construction of the Boboli Gardens behind the Palazzo Pitti began in 1549 under Cosimo I de Medici. (Learn More)

PALAZZO CONTARINI DEL BOVOLO

An early Renaissance staircase set into a circular Byzantine-style tower, the Bovolo Staircase at the Palazzo Contarini del Bovolo is an architectural icon in Venice. (Learn More)

PARMA CATHEDRAL

The original Parma Cathedral was consecrated in 1106 but was almost entirely destroyed by an earthquake that struck northern Italy in 1117. (Learn More)

QUERINI STAMPALIA LIBRARY

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

RUPESTRIAN CHURCHES OF PUGLIA AND THE CITY OF MATERA

In 1464, Pope Paul II gave the Ciminelli family his blessing to enhance the church of San Pietro Barisano in the I Sassi district of Matera, the northernmost province in the Puglia region of Italy. (Learn More)

SAN PIETRO DI CASTELLO CHURCH

From the ninth century until 1807, when Saint Mark’s Basilica became Venice’s official cathedral, the Church of San Pietro di Castello functioned as the spiritual and administrative rel (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 DELLA VISITAZIONE (CHURCH OF THE PIETÀ)

The Church of Santa Maria della Visitazione, also known as the Church of the Pietà, was designed by the architect Giorgio Massari and built between 1745 and 1760. (Learn More)

SANTI QUATTRO CORONATI CLOISTER

Within the fortress-like Basilica of Santi Quattro Coronati complex is an early-13th-century cloister that is possibly the earliest structure in Rome in the Cosmatesque style, which is characterize (Learn More)

SCUOLA GRANDE DEI CARMINI (SCUOLA GRANDE DI SANTA MARIA DEL CARMELO)

Though not officially founded until the year 1594, the Scuola Grande dei Carmini traces its roots to 1286, when the institution was established as one of the earliest civic and charitable confrater (Learn More)

SCUOLA GRANDE DI SAN ROCCO

Founded in 1478, the Scuola Grande di San Rocco became the richest and largest of the Venetian scuole, religious confraternities that functioned simultaneously as charitable organizations, (Learn More)

TEMPLE OF PORTUNUS

The Temple of Portunus, dating to the first century B.C., is a rare survivor of Roman Republican architecture and a reminder of the magnificence of the Forum Boarium in Antiquity, once a major comm (Learn More)

TUFF TOWNS AND VIE CAVE

The towns of Pitigliano, Sorano, Manciano, and Civita di Bagnoregio lie balanced on the crests of steep Italian hills, built into the tufa (or tuff) bedrock, a soft stone formed from volcanic ash. (Learn More)

MACHIYA TOWNHOUSES

The machiya of Kyoto are traditional townhouses dating from the Edo period (1603–1867). Born out of the city’s growing merchant class, they functioned as both residences and workspaces. (Learn More)

APOSTLE SANTIAGO CHURCH IN NURIO

Apostle Santiago Church was built in the 18th century in the Michoacán Sierra to form part of a huatápera, or hospital complex. (Learn More)

CONFERENCE ON THE PRESERVATION OF AMERICAN FORTIFICATIONS

Through the World Monuments Watch, WMF became increasingly aware of the conservation challenges facing the heritage of historic fortifications throughout the Americas. (Learn More)

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 YUCATÁN PENINSULA

Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula is home to some of the best-preserved examples of architecture and urban settlements from the pinnacle of Maya culture, the Late Classical Period (A.D. (Learn More)

MONTE ALBÁN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE

The ancient Zapotec metropolis of Monte Albán was founded in the 6th century B.C. on a flattened mountain overlooking the city of Oaxaca. (Learn More)

PALAFOXIANA LIBRARY

The origins of Palafoxiana Library date to 1646 when a personal collection of approximately 5,000 volumes was contributed to the Colegio de San Juan y San Pedro by Bishop Juan de Palafox y Mendoza. (Learn More)

SAN AGUSTIN CONVENT IN SALAMANCA

The Convent of San Agustín in Salamanca was built by Jesuit missionaries in the 17th century. For the church, sculptor Pedro José de Rojas created a huge, wooden Baroque. (Learn More)

SAN GABRIEL CONVENT IN CHOLULA

The San Gabriel Convent dates to 1520 and was built by the Spanish on a site that previously had a temple dedicated to a pre-Columbian deity. (Learn More)

SAN JUAN BAUTISTA IN CUAUHTINCHAN

Located in the Mexican state of Puebla, the San Juan Bautista convent in Cuauhtinchan was built between 1528 and 1554 on the site of a 12th-century Tolteca-Chichimeca foundation to support the reli (Learn More)

SAN MIGUEL ARCANGEL IN MANI

The former Convent of San Miguel Arcangel in Maní was constructed between 1548 and 1557. (Learn More)

SANTO DOMINGO DE GUZMÁN

Santo Domingo de Guzmán was built in the 16th century and the complex consists of a masonry church and convent constructed out of stone in the Renaissance style. (Learn More)

PANAMA CANAL AREA

In the late nineteenth century, a French company began building what would come to be considered one of the greatest engineering achievements in human history. (Learn More)

CHANKILLO

Chankillo was built as a fortified temple complex over 2,300 years ago in the coastal desert of Peru, near the Casma-Sechín river basin. (Learn More)

KUELAP FORTRESS

Kuelap, one of the largest ancient monuments of the Americas, was a fortified citadel in northern Peru on the slopes of the Andes. (Learn More)

LOS PINCHUDOS ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE

Among rock shelters, ceremonial structures, houses, terraces, and funerary chambers is the cemetery of Los Pinchudos, a key feature of the National Park of Río Abiseo. (Learn More)

SAN CRISTÓBAL DE RAPAZ CHURCH

In the 16th and 17th centuries colonial Catholic missions were established in the Oyón Valley in Peru and built in a style described as Rural Andean Baroque. (Learn More)

SAN JUAN BAUTISTA OF HUARO CHURCH

San Juan Bautista was built by Jesuits in the sixteenth century in the town of Huaro, strategically located on an Inca road system 35 miles south of Cusco. (Learn More)

SAN PEDRO DE MÓRROPE CHAPEL

The chapel of San Pedro de Mórrope was constructed in the 16th century during the Colonial period in Peru in an effort to convert the indigenous Mochica people to Christianity. (Learn More)

PIŃCZÓW SYNAGOGUE

Pińczów Synagogue, built at the turn of the 17th century, is the last surviving Jewish monument in the city of Pińczów, once a thriving economic and cultural Jewish center. (Learn More)

VISTULAMOUTH FORTRESS

The origins of Vistulamouth Fortress probably date to the early medieval period, when a lighthouse and watchtower guarding the mouth of the Vistula River occupied the site of the current structures (Learn More)

FUNCHAL CATHEDRAL

Construction on the Funchal church on the island of Madeira began around 1500 after the arrival of the first Portuguese colonists. (Learn More)

ROMAN VILLA OF RABAÇAL

The 4th-century Roman villa of Rabaçal is perhaps the most important ruin at the site of ancient Conimbriga, one of the largest Roman sites, and the best preserved, in Portugal. (Learn More)

TEATRO CAPITÓLIO

BRANCUSI’S ENDLESS COLUMN ENSEMBLE

Erected in 1934, the Endless Column by famed Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957) has been hailed as one of the great works of twentieth-century outdoor sculpture. (Learn More)

ARKHANGELSKOYE STATE MUSEUM

In the 18th century, Prince Nikolai Golitsyn commissioned French architects to craft an elaborate palace and grounds on the outskirts of Moscow. (Learn More)

CHINESE PALACE AT ORANIENBAUM STATE MUSEUM

The Chinese Palace at Oranienbaum, an addition to Prince Alexander Menshikov’s estate at Oranienbaum, was the first palace commissioned by Russian empress Catherine the Great following her se (Learn More)

GRAND CHORAL SYNAGOGUE

Grand Choral Synagogue is a testament to the determination of the Jewish community of St. Petersburg, who faced many restrictions on land use in the city. (Learn More)

NARKOMFIN BUILDING

OSTANKINO ESTATE MUSEUM

Ostankino Estate Museum has stood on the outskirts of Moscow for more than 250 years. (Learn More)

RUSAKOV CLUB

The avant-garde architect Konstatin Melnikov designed the Rusakov Club as a theater for workers who labored in nearby printing factories. (Learn More)

AQUEDUCT OF SEGOVIA

The Aqueduct of Segovia was built during the second half of the 1st century A.D. under the rule of the Roman Empire and supplied water from the Frío River to the city into the 20th century. (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)

LAS CALATRAVAS CHURCH

The Church of the Concepción Real de Calatrava was built in the historic center of Madrid in the late 17th century by Fray Lorenzo de San Nicolás, an Augustinian monk and accomplished architect. (Learn More)

MOORISH HOUSES OF GRANADA

The neighborhood of Albayzin in Granada, Spain, contains several Moorish houses, some dating to the period of the Alhambra, many of which were built in the 16th century. (Learn More)

ROYAL MONASTERY OF GUADALUPE

Constructed in 1389 to commemorate the miraculous appearance of the Virgin the previous year, the Royal Monastery of Guadalupe sits at an altitude of 660 meters in the Villuerca Mountains of southw (Learn More)

SANTA MARIA DE VITORIA CATHEDRAL

Santa María de Vitoria Cathedral was built by King Alfonso VIII of Castile after the conquest of Vitoria in the second half of the 12th century. (Learn More)

SANTO DOMINGO EL ANTIGUO

Founded by Alfonso VI, Santo Domingo el Antiguo de Silos is the oldest monastery in Toledo, dating to 1085. (Learn More)

TOLEDO CATHEDRAL (OCHAVO CHAPEL AND SAN BLAS CHAPEL)

The Toledo Cathedral was built in the 13th century and contains several beautifully decorated chapels, including the Ochavo and San Blás chapels. (Learn More)

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)

TELL MOZAN

Tell Mozan, located in northeast Syria in the Khabur River plain, is the site of ancient Urkesh, a place associated with the Hurrians, a Bronze Age people of Upper Mesopotamia. (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)

CHURCH OF THE HOLY SAVIOR

Located in modern-day eastern Turkey, Surp Amenap’rkitch, or the Church of the Holy Savior, is one of the few structures still standing at Ani from the prosperous Armenian Bagratid period in (Learn More)

EPHESOS ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE

The ancient city of Ephesos (also known as Ephesus) has a rich history dating back to 6000 B.C. In the eighth century B.C., Ephesos became one of 12 major Ionian cities. (Learn More)

MOUNT NEMRUT ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE

Antiochus I, an Armenian king whose lineage connected him to the Seleucids, Ptolemies, and Macedonians, ruled the small territory of Commagene in Asia Minor in the 1st century B.C. (Learn More)

RED CHURCH

Kizil Kilise, also known as the Red Church, is one of the oldest churches on the vast plains of the Cappadocia region of Turkey. (Learn More)

CASTLE SINCLAIR GIRNIGOE

Castle Sinclair Girnigoe is a complex of ruined stone structures built and modified over a 200-year period by the Sinclair earls of Caithness, historically one of northern Scotland’s most pow (Learn More)

INGRAM STREET TEAROOMS

The Ingram Street Tea Rooms were some of the first dining establishments created by Catherine Cranston at the end of the nineteenth century in Glasgow. (Learn More)

MUSSENDEN TEMPLE

The Downhill estate was constructed in the late eighteenth century for Frederick Hervey, the Bishop of Derry and Earl of Bristol. (Learn More)

SAINT FRANCIS AND GORTON CHURCH AND MONASTERY

Edward Pugin’s Saint Francis and Gorton Church and Monastery in Gorton, Manchester is recognized as a masterpiece of Victorian Gothic architecture. (Learn More)

SAINT PAUL'S CATHEDRAL

A cathedral dedicated to the Apostle Paul has existed in London since 604 AD. The medieval cathedral was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666. (Learn More)

SELBY ABBEY

Although Selby Abbey is now a parish church, it was one of England’s great monastic churches, built on a grand scale and to a high level of architectural and artistic mastery. (Learn More)

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)

STOWE HOUSE

Stowe House was originally the country seat of the Temple-Grenville family. The first house on its footprint was built between 1677 and 1683 for the third baronet, Sir Richard Temple. (Learn More)

TOMB OF VISCOUNT CAMPDEN AT EXTON CHURCH

The Church of St. Peter and St. Paul in Exton,Rutland, is of great significance for its fine collection of funerary monuments, some of which are of national significance. (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)

LAFAYETTE CEMETERY NO. 1

MAIN STREET MODERN: GROSSE POINTE PUBLIC LIBRARY

Grosse Pointe Public Library was built by Bauhaus-trained architect Marcel Breuer in 1953. (Learn More)

MESA VERDE NATIONAL PARK

Mesa Verde, a large, gently sloping plateau etched with deep canyons, was occupied by the Ancestral Puebloan civilization between the 6th and 13th centuries AD. (Learn More)

MOUNT LEBANON SHAKER VILLAGE

At its height in 1860, the Shaker village of Mount Lebanon, New York, spanned some 6,000 acres and contained more than 100 buildings. (Learn More)

OLANA STATE HISTORIC SITE

Olana, the famed home of Frederic Edwin Church, the nineteenth-century American landscape painter and a central figure in the Hudson River School. (Learn More)

SAN JOSE CHURCH

The San José Church, originally known as the Iglesia de Santo Tomás de Aquino, is considered by many scholars to be one of the finest and oldest examples of Gothic-influenced religiou (Learn More)

SOUTH SIDE OF ELLIS ISLAND

Ellis Island in New York Harbor was the principle point of entry for immigrants to America from 1892 until 1924, during which period an estimated 12 million people were processed. (Learn More)

VDL RESEARCH HOUSE II

MY SON TEMPLE DISTRICT

My Son, an architectural complex on the coast of Vietnam, was the spiritual and political capital of the Cham people (the Champa Kingdom). (Learn More)