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The San Juan Bautista convent was built on the site of a 12th-century Tolteca-Chichimeca foundation to support the religious conversion of indigenous populations shortly after the Spanish Conquest.

For over six centuries, Bánffy Castle was occupied by members of the same aristocratic family.

The Taj Mahal is the tallest Mughal tomb ever built and is considered to be the single greatest work of Mughal architecture.

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.

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.

Khami, a settlement founded in the mid-15th century, became the capital city of Great Zimbabwe in the mid-16th century and thus became the center of the kingdom's political and economic power.

The engravings of Agadez is one of the most extraordinary rock art sites in the region, consisting of over 800 prehistoric images drawn on a large, standstone outcrop.

George Washington’s ancestral home in England is an excellent example of a small house museum that faces major repair and business challenges in the modern day.

Durbar squares, a generic term for the plazas opposite royal palaces in Nepal, can be found throughout the country.

The dwindling monastic vocation poses a serious challenge to the future of Seville’s remaining cloistered convents.

Constructed in 1389 to commemorate the miraculous appearance of the Virgin the previous year, the Royal Monastery of Guadalupe sits in the Villuerca Mountains of southwestern central Spain.

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.