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Treskavec Monastery, a medieval pilgrimage site founded in the twelfth century, sits atop a remote mountain in southern Macedonia, a steep eight-kilometer hike from the town of Prilep.

Built in 1295, the Holy Mother of God Peribleptos is one of the oldest churches in the historic town of Ohrid in southwestern Macedonia.

Located in the Messak Plateau in southwest Libya near the borders of Algieria and Niger, Wadi Mathendous contains some of the world’s oldest rock art.

With a settlement history spanning some 1,200 years, the cultural landscape of Iskandarouna-Naqoura, including the site of Umm el-Amed, is rich in archaeological remains and natural resources.

Riga Cathedral, the centerpiece of Latvia's capital city, was built in the early 13th century in the Romanesque style.

Located about 70 kilometers north of Petra, Khirbet et-Tannur is one of the best-preserved and most intact examples of a Nabataean open-air sanctuary.

The Jordan River lay at the heart of millennia of history, religion, and culture.

Considered among the most important pre-pottery Neolithic sites in the whole of the ancient Near East, Ain Ghazal first came to light during road construction on the outskirts of Amman in 1974.

In the late 18th century, Jamaica's House of Assembly passed an act commissioning the construction of a much-needed bridge between Kingston and Spanish Town in St. Catherine.

The Viscontian bridge-dam in Valeggio sul Mincio is a remnant of a larger defense system put in place by Count Gian Galeazzo Visconti, when he ruled Lombardy in the late fourteenth century.

Transhumance, the seasonal moving of sheep across vast swaths of grazing lands, has been an essential part of traditional Italian agricultural life since Roman times.

Within the fortress-like Basilica of Santi Quattro Coronati complex is an early-13th-century cloister that is possibly the earliest structure in Rome in the Cosmatesque style.