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Karol Scheibler, textile magnate and philanthropist, oversaw the transformation of Łodz from a quiet agricultural town into a major industrial center in the nineteenth century.

A rare example of a Teutonic Order hospital structure, the former Jerusalem Hospital in Malborka was built in the late thirteenth century to care for the region's sick and needy.

Used as a sacred burial ground by the Chachapoya, the Revash site is composed of a series of chullpas, or stone tomb chambers, nestled in the limestone cliffs overlooking the Utcubamba River.

A large urban center on the outskirts of Lima, Cajamarquilla was first settled by the Huari, whose culture flourished along the Peruvian coast ca. a.d. 400-600. .

Located about 100 kilometers east of Karachi, this windswept World Heritage Site in the Indus Valley was once a well-watered and revered destination for medieval worshippers and celebrants.

Established around 1650, the Sandviken Bay settlement served as the original site of fishing-industry warehouses and roperies in the southwestern city of Bergen.

The Benin City Walls consist of a set of inner and outer interlocking rings originally built to delineate the royal precinct of the Oba, or king, from the surrounding area.

Built in 1591, San Nicolás Obispo, an important example of a Franciscan visita, or pilgrimage church, retains much of its original architecture.

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.

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

Publio Pomponio Corneliano and his family constructed the hypogeum of Santa Maria in Stelle in the early third century AD.

In 1740, King Charles III embarked on the construction of the Royal Palace of Portici as a summer residence for the court.