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In its earliest days, the Heavenly Father Chapel had a dual purpose: its lower level was a depository for human bones while the upper level was a chapel where one could celebrate the requiem mass.

Remote Palpung Monastery, accessed by a single road, remains a thriving Buddhist university.

South Pass is synonymous with the opening up of the American West. Hundreds of thousands of pioneers traveling by wagon along the Oregon Trail passed through this region.

Few of Norway's original wooden towns exist. Fires, urban renewal, indifferent owners have reduced many to dereliction.

A structure erected for pure fortification has evolved into a valuable historic aesthetic element in Vilnius.

Shibam presents itself as a city of mud brick skyscrapers. The agglomeration of 1,600-year-old structures, some eight stories, was a familiar site for travelers on the frankincense caravan route.

Bodie is the largest and most complete unrestored ghost town remaining in the American West.

The Downhill estate was constructed in the late eighteenth century for Frederick Hervey, the Bishop of Derry and Earl of Bristol.

From a distance, the 170-foot-tall Hadlow Tower appears as a slender skyscraper rising from the flat Kent landscape.

Wide, protective sandy beaches and a deep Mediterranean bay helped make Patara the wealthy capital of the Lycian-Pamphylian province during the Roman Empire.

For the first several decades after the Spanish colonialists arrived in Mexico, a furious convent and church building campaign began with the arrival of Christian missionaries.

The last generation of wealthy landowners to emerge in Mexico to build elaborate haciendas within huge land tracts arose during the dictatorship of Diaz, president from1876 until 1911.