Commander Shepard, the Normandy and a galaxy that remembers your choices.
Lothric, the Lords of Cinder and the series at its fastest and most polished.
Drangleic and the Bearer of the Curse; the divisive middle game, longest of the three.
A kingslayer, two mutually exclusive second acts, and the game that put CD Projekt on the map.
Geralt's amnesiac first outing: Vizima, the Salamandra and a combat system nobody misses.
The most complete Gothic cathedral in France, with 176 windows of unrepeatable twelfth-century blue.
Picasso's 3.5-by-7.8-metre scream about the bombing of a Basque town, in the Reina Sofia.
Twenty-one million built: the people's car that outlived the regime that ordered it.
A White Sea island fortress-monastery that became the first camp of the Gulag.
Three rooms of pine, built in three days in 1703; the first building in St Petersburg.
Chandeliers, mosaics and marble a hundred metres down; the palace the Soviets built for commuters.
The best-preserved temple in Egypt, buried in sand for centuries and dedicated to the falcon god Horus.
A circular Berber fortified granary of 114 cells, built in the twelfth century and still standing.
Kanaga masks and five-metre sirige poles danced on the cliffs of Bandiagara.
Hand-beaten silver and gold crosses, each parish with its own design, carried at Timkat.
A sixth-century monastery on a flat-topped mountain, reached only by climbing a leather rope.
The Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa on the platform holiest to Judaism and third-holiest to Islam.
A vaulted iron-roofed bazaar running to the Umayyad Mosque, its ceiling pierced by French bullet holes.
Darius the Great cut his story into a cliff in three languages; the Rosetta Stone of cuneiform.
Knotted by hand at a rate of centimetres a week; the art Persia is still measured by.
A pentagonal caravanserai-temple built over a natural gas vent, used by Zoroastrians and Hindu pilgrims.
Nineteen masonry instruments from the 1730s, including a sundial accurate to two seconds.
Fourteen gopuram towers over Madurai, every inch of them crowded with painted gods.
Pepper, cardamom and ginger warehouses on the backwater that made Kerala worth fighting over.
Kolkata's clay-modeller quarter builds ten-armed goddesses all year, then floats them down the Hooghly.
Blue-and-white jars whose cobalt came up the Silk Road from Persia, in one of the great collections.
A kneeling gold elephant with a jewelled howdah, sealed in a temple crypt around 1420.
Life-sized wooden effigies of the dead, watching from balconies cut into the cliff graves.
Sydney's oldest church, designed by a convict architect transported for forgery.
Mies van der Rohe's bronze tower on Park Avenue; the blueprint every glass skyscraper copied.
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