Meandering through gorges of the Indus River valley and across high mountain passes, ancient arteries of the fabled Silk Road cut through the Diamer District of Northern Pakistan.
Grosse Pointe Public Library, built by Bauhaus-trained architect Marcel Breuer in 1953, is one of the architect’s first major public commissions in the United States.
19th century colonial settlers to New Zealand constructed government buildings reminiscent of those in London, combining the English Gothic Revival style with local flourishes.
First settled in 1651 by traders from Courland (present-day Latvia) on an earlier native site, James Island on the River Gambia was a cultural crossroads from the late fifteenth to nineteenth centuries.