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The earliest surviving church in China, the Da Qin Pagoda and Monastery were constructed at a time when Christianity was spreading to the east.

More than two dozen waterwheels built by the Spanish at Larmahue are among the last such agricultural devices still in use in the Americas.

The sixteenth-century Pervomaisk Church was built as a Calvinist Protestant Church, becoming, in 1648, a Catholic church and family tomb owned by the Radziwill Zawisha family.

With unexplored twin Lucayan-Taíno aboriginal village sites; an ocean bath carved from living rock, where slaves were washed following transport through the Middle Passage.

Twenty-six churches were built between 1630 and 1780 at Voskopojë, situated along the trade route from Venice to Constantinople in southeastern Albania.

George Town, established as a British trading port in 1786, displays its vivid and varied cultural heritage through the array of buildings and architectural styles found along its streets.

The Château de Chantilly sits at the confluence of the Oise and Seine Rivers in northern France and is a magnificent stone complex surrounded by manicured lawns, farms, ponds, and stables.

The Mnajdra Prehistoric Temples lie along the southern coast of Malta amidst the blue waters of the central Mediterranean.

In a fertile valley in southeastern Peru, at an elevation of 3,400 meters, the Incas established the important settlement of Cusco in the twelfth century.

The 1,500-year-old stupas and temples of Sri-Ksetra are among the earliest Buddhist monuments in the world.

The Iraq Cultural Heritage Conservation Initiative was formed to protect Iraqi historic monuments like the ancient palaces of Nineveh and Nimrud from damages related to war.

Located at a crossroads of Europe and Asia on the famous Silk Road, Tbilisi faced repeated invasions since its founding in the fifth century as rival powers have sought to control its strategic position.