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The buildings at the imperial mountain resort at Chengde were built in stages between 1703 and 1792 and were where Qing emperors from Kangxi (r.1661-1722) onwards spent much of their time.

The forces of neglect, development, and irresponsible tourism are shrinking the world’s largest historic monument.

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

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

A Polynesian volcanic island in the Pacific Ocean, at the southeastern most point of the Polynesian triangle, Easter Island is a special territory of Chile that was annexed in 1888.

Between 1570 and the middle of the seventeenth century, the port of Arica was the main commercial shipping port for mercury and silver to and from Potosi, Bolivia.

Restoration of Valparaíso’s historic funiculars jump-started several other conservation projects in the historic seaport.

At least 150 wooden churches once stood on the Chiloé archipelago, a group of islands off the coast of central Chile.

Bafut Palace is located in the heart of the Bafut kingdom in northwest Cameroon.

Spanning lands that cross the modern borders of Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, and Ghana, the Loropeni ruins are part of the larger Lobi Ruins, a 120-mile-by-60-mile cultural landscape.

Several capacity building workshops and conservation projects have protected the historic fabric of South America’s Jesuit Guaraní missions and established them as a cohesive group.