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This former department store of Kolkata (former Calcutta) aspired to be a civic landmark on par with Government House and the Victoria Memorial.

Constructed in Leipzig, Germany, in the early thirteenth century by the Augustinian monastic order, Thomaskirche, or St. Thomas Church, has been the site of Leipzig's most important cultural events.

With its five-aisled choir and transept soaring to a height of 46.5 meters, St. Pierre Cathedral is an extreme expression of the gothic enterprise.

In the mid-seventeenth century, the Franciscans established a church and convent in the state of Bahia, choosing a dramatic site overlooking the waters of Lagamar of the Iguape.

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.

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).

Western Ukraine's only preserved structure from antiquity is still an everyday part of life in Kamyanets-Podilsky.

Basil the Great Church belongs to a small and precious collection of wooden churches in the rural Carpathian mountain region of Slovakia, a significant border between East/West Christian faiths.