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Prince Frederik's idea in 1822 was noble and seemingly sound: give destitute families a small house, an arable plot of land, two cows, a sheep, tools, and clothing...

In 1589, Archduke Ernst gave the Franciscan Order a Gothic church, St. Jerome in Vienna.

Phoenician merchants established Tipasa on Algeria's western Mediterranean coast in the sixth century BC, but the city did not reach its apex until the second and first centuries BC.

Archaeological evidence indicates that Corfiot traders founded Butrint in the eighth century BC.

The palaces of Tarim are among the most intricate and technologically sophisticated mud-brick structures in the world.

My Son, an architectural complex on the coast of Vietnam, was the spiritual and political capital of the Cham people (the Champa Kingdom).

Among the first churches that the Franciscan Order founded in Venezuela, the original church at Coro was part of the Convent of Nuestra Señora de la Salceda, founded in 1614.

Warmed by gentle Caribbean breezes and surrounded with beaches lapped by azure waters, the Real Fuerza de Santiago de Arroyo's languid setting reveals little of its tumultuous history.

The historic city of La Guaira was founded in the sixteenth century on the Caribbean Sea and served as the chief port for Venezuela’s future inland capital Caracas.

The ancient Silk Road center of Bukhara is the best-preserved medieval city in Central Asia.

The towering mud-brick walls of the three fortresses at Ayaz Kala, located in the Khwarezm region of Central Asia (modern Uzbekistan), rise dramatically from the surrounding plains.

The VDL Research House II was designed by Austrian-American architect Richard Neutra and was partially financed by Dutch industrialist C.H. Van der Leeuw (VDL).