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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.

In the early fifteenth century, Dragpa Bumdey, King of Ladakh, built the first fortifications in Leh as well as a small royal residence along a mountain ridge high above the town.

Built in 1156 by King Rawal Jaisal, Jaisalmer Fort dominates the countryside in the far northwestern corner of Rajasthan, near the border of India and Pakistan.

The former Dalhousie Square, now known as Benoy-Badal-Dinesh Bagh, is an oasis at the heart of modern Kolkata, formerly Calcutta, in eastern India.

The mud-brick fortress of Basgo Gompa is perched high in the hills of Ladakh, between the Himalaya and Karakoram mountain ranges in northern India.

The Royal Garden Pavilion was designed by Miklós Ybi, an important nineteenth-century Hungarian architect, and built on the embankment of the Danube River at the foot of Castle Hill.

Conservation work and the development of a site management plan brought the local community together for the preservation of the archaeological remains at Uaxactun.

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

The archaeological park of Kaminaljuyu is located in Guatemala's highland central valley, in close proximity to the ever-expanding urban development of Guatemala City.

In the Panchoy valley, surrounded by the Agua, Fuego, and Acatenago volcanoes, the city of Antigua was founded in 1543.

Naranjo, the second largest Maya city in Guatemala after Tikal, developed between 500 BC and AD 950, although the main period of construction took place during the Late Classic period.

Today, the Usumacinta River defines the border between Guatemala and the Mexican state of Chiapas, but in antiquity its waters lay between the rival Maya cities of Piedras Negras and Yaxchilán.