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The ruins of St. Michael Cathedral and the fragments of its stained glass windows were restored with the wholehearted support of the local community.

Newstead Abbey is best known today as the ancestral home of Lord Byron (1788–1824). The original Newstead Abbey was founded by Henry II as an Augustinian priory in the twelfth century.

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

Ruta de la Amistad consists of twenty-two large-scale sculptures that were commissioned ahead of the 1968 Summer Olympics to serve as permanent markers of the event in Mexico City.

First occupied in the fifteenth century, the Royal Hill of Ambohimanga has long been one of the most important spiritual and historic sites for the Malagasy people.

When an earthquake struck East Japan in March 2011, the rebuilding of heritage structures became a major part of the recovery process for local communities.

The machiya of Kyoto are traditional townhouses dating from the Edo period (1603–1867).

The village of Desa Lingga is emblematic of the challenges of maintaining local culture and vernacular practices in a rapidly changing world.

Dating from 1735, Balaji Ghat is located on the banks of the Ganges River in Varanasi, one of the world’s oldest continuously occupied cities and an important Hindu pilgrimage destination.

The tallest Maya stela ever discovered was found in Quiriguá, an archaeological site of the Classic Maya period.