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At the end of the eighteenth century, the town of Przysucha was one of the most important centers of the Chassidic movement, a branch of Orthodox Judaism that focuses on mysticism.

Of the several Jewish synagogues that existed in the Kazimierz Jewish district in historic Krakow, Tempel synagogue survived World War II due to its re-use as a stable during the German occupation.

Zamość synagogue was built in the early seventeenth century and retains much of its original fabric.

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.

The baroque chapel of the Virgen Purificada de Canincunca was built in the seventeenth century on the site of an important pre-Inca settlement near Cusco.

Quinta de Presa is a unique eighteenth-century suburban villa located on the outskirts of downtown Lima, north of the Rímac River.

A region originally settled by pre-Inca cultures, the historic center of Cajamarca is remarkable for its well-preserved Baroque architecture constructed of volcanic stone and characterized by ornate façades.

The churches of the Colca Valley were built in the seventeenth century and have not been modified much since.

San Pedro Apóstol was built by Jesuits in the sixteenth century over a pre-Columbian huaca, or ceremonial space.

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.

Founded by Francisco Pizarro in 1535 as "the City of Kings," Lima was laid out according to the standard Spanish colony grid plan that was superimposed on a crossing point of pre-existing Inca roads.

Huaca de la Luna, or Temple of the Moon, was part of the ancient Moche capital built of millions of adobe blocks between the first and eighth centuries AD in northern Peru.