Restored colonial old town, UNESCO-listed.
Living Silk Road museum-city.
Dutch colonial ramparts around a living town of boutique hotels, lighthouse and cricket on the green.
Three grand madrasas on one square.
A skyline of 2,500-year-old gingerbread tower houses with white gypsum trim, one of the oldest cities in the world.
The "Manhattan of the Desert", UNESCO-listed.
Antigua's iconic yellow arch.
Tiny island of coral-stone colonial buildings that named the country.
Red-stone Jesuit mission, UNESCO-listed.
Giant Roman amphitheatre, UNESCO-listed.
Mud-brick birthplace of the Saudi state.
The oldest European building in sub-Saharan Africa, a haunting slave-trade fort.
One of the oldest continuously inhabited sites.
Al-Balad’s coral-stone merchant houses with carved wooden balconies, a UNESCO gateway for centuries of Mecca pilgrims.
Earthen palaces of the kings of Dahomey, a UNESCO site.
The "town of a thousand windows", UNESCO-listed.
Great Mud Mosque town, UNESCO-listed.
Medieval monastery partly carved into rock.
Ninth-century mosque with the spiralling Malwiya minaret.
One of Islam’s oldest and grandest mosques, glittering with gold mosaics.
Fairytale medieval walled city, UNESCO-listed.
Swahili island town of donkeys, dhows and carved doorways.
Pyramidal earthen tomb of the Songhai emperor, bristling with wooden stakes.
Ottoman stone city below a hilltop castle.
Fifteenth-century royal complex at the heart of Baku’s walled old city.
Bulgaria's grandest mountain monastery.
Angkor Thom’s central temple, where 200 giant serene stone faces stare from 54 towers.
15th-century mosque at Bagerhat, UNESCO-listed.
Labyrinthine Swahili trading town of carved doors and spice bazaars.
Ancient churches on a Black Sea peninsula, UNESCO-listed.
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