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At the edge of the Beaufort Sea off the north coast of Canada's Yukon Territory, Herschel Island was first inhabited a millennium ago by the Thule—ancestors of the present-day Inuit.

The ancient Silk Road center of Bukhara is the best-preserved medieval city in Central Asia.

The towering mud-brick walls of the three fortresses at Ayaz Kala, located in the Khwarezm region of Central Asia (modern Uzbekistan), rise dramatically from the surrounding plains.

The Salk Institute for Biological Studies is considered one of Louis Kahn's greatest buildings and an icon of 20th-century architecture.

Many communities in the United States have at least one modern public building.

Located in the Tower Hamlets borough of London, Wilton's Music Hall is thought to be the last remaining example of a mid-Victorian London music hall.

Richhill House was designed in a Renaissance style, with two large "Dutch" gabled and pedimented wings, with dormers in the same style, and paneled chimney stacks.

Mavisbank House is recognized as one of the finest examples of Neoclassical architecture in Scotland.

Pidhirtsi Castle was constructed by the Italian architect Andrea dell'Aqua between 1635 and 1640 for the Hetman (Cossack chief) of the Polish crown.

Stretching along the Golden Horn to the Sea of Marmara, the fortified walls of Istanbul protected the city from the early Byzantine period to the fifteenth century.

Built in the late sixteenth or early seventeenth century during Ottoman rule of Ankara, this han, or caravanserai, was designed to accommodate traveling merchants.

The Ljungberg Hall was originally designed as an exhibition hall for the 1897 Stockholm Exposition of Art and Industry.