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Among the more remarkable remnants of America's nineteenth-century gold rush is the Hanging Flume, a 21-kilometer track built along the walls of Colorado's Dolores River Canyon.

Chersonesos, on the Crimean Peninsula on the Black Sea, was founded by Greek settlers in the fifth century BC and was occupied during the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine eras.

With its ancient tell surrounded by high defensive earthen ramparts, and its impressive palace complex, the ancient Parthian city of Old Nisa is one of Turkmenistan's most significant cultural sites.

First settled in the third millennium BC, the Syrian capital of Damascus is one of the longest continually inhabited cities in the world.

The Greek Catholic Church of Eastern Slovakia has always battled for its survival.

The 19.5-hectare park of Lednické-Rovne boasts numerous English garden follies such as a Gothic-style gate, medieval turret, and a Roman-style temple to Minerva.

A fine example of eighteenth-century Russian Classicism, the Semenovskoe-Otrada Palace is one of the largest non-royal residences in Russia and the largest in the Moscow region.

One of the finest creations of Imperial Russia, the building was decorated by leading artisans of the time-Charlemagne, Hofert, Rudolf, and de Pedro.

The Oradea Fortress was built atop earlier earthen fortifications and an eleventh-century cathedral commissioned by King Ladislaus, credited with Christianizing Transylvania.

Now a neglected outpost near Krakow, the village of Wiślica was once a thriving religious and political center of medieval Poland.

Karol Scheibler, textile magnate and philanthropist, oversaw the transformation of Łodz from a quiet agricultural town into a major industrial center in the nineteenth century.

A rare example of a Teutonic Order hospital structure, the former Jerusalem Hospital in Malborka was built in the late thirteenth century to care for the region's sick and needy.