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Built between 1928 and 1930 and designed by Moisei Ginzburg and Ignatii Milinis for employees of the National Finance Ministry, the Narkomfin building is a seminal monument of Modern architecture.

In 1927 the master architect Konstantin Melnikov was granted a small plot of land to build a private house.

One of New Orleans’s oldest surviving cemeteries, Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 was placed on the Watch in 1996 because of its advanced state of deterioration.

The Dampier archipelago stretches from northwestern Australia into the Indian Ocean, its landscape marked by crags and ridges that were formed by the erosion of Precambrian lava activity.

The Haji Piyada Mosque was built in the second half of the ninth century, only two centuries after the establishment of Islam and immediately following its arrival in Central Asia.

Documentation and a conditions analysis kicked off an initiative to preserve the 2,500-year-old Cathedral of Mren.

An international conference helped secure a place for heritage in the urban development policies of Yangon.

The little-known Churches of Saint Merri and Notre-Dame de Lorette in Paris are an integral part of the city’s historic urban landscape, and both are in need of restoration.

Pokfulam is characterized by narrow lanes and alleys twisting through the village, around small traditional buildings and newer structures.

Shikarpoor was founded in 1617 as a walled city and, due to its strategic location, became a main stop on the trade route between Central Asia and India in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Battersea Power Station and its chimneys have been an iconic part of the London skyline since the time of their construction.

Kathmandu Valley, a fertile bowl nestled among peaks of the Himalayan mountain range, has been a base of religious activity for centuries.