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The islands dotting the Dalmatian shoreline form one of the most beautiful scenic areas of the Adriatic coast.

For more than two centuries Qikou, a unique terraced townscape carved into a steep hillside on the banks of the Yellow River, served as a vital trading point for river-bound freight.

Built by Portuguese dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar in 1933, the prison camp of Tarrafal on Santiago Island housed political prisoners and Africans rebelling against colonial rule.

At the edge of the Beaufort Sea off the north coast of Canada's Yukon Territory, Herschel Island was first inhabited a millennium ago by the Thule—ancestors of the present-day Inuit.

For generations many West coast Canadian towns depended on the local cannery.

It is the definitive icon for Bulgarians: a carved rock relief depicting the life-size forms of a horseman trailed by a running dog and a speared lion caught beneath the crushing hooves of the horse.

Natural and human factors have caused prehistoric Stone Age paintings to deteriorate and have brought some to the brink of destruction.

In the mid-seventeenth century, the Franciscans established a church and convent in the state of Bahia, choosing a dramatic site overlooking the waters of Lagamar of the Iguape.

Spanning the waters of the Drina River, the sixteenth-century Mehmed-Pasha Sokolovic Bridge was designed by Sinan, considered by many to have been the finest architect of the Ottoman Empire.

With their extraordinary paintings and petroglyphs dating from possibly 6000 BC to A D. 1950, the Andean rock art sites are among the most significant of their kind in Bolivia.

A succession of twelve kings ruled the African kingdom of Abomey from the 17th century until the early 20th century and each of them built a lavish palace on the royal grounds.

Weather, plant encroachment, and looting of antiquities threaten El Pilar, the largest ancient Maya city in the Belize River area.