Second tower on Monte Titanoโs highest summit, home to the ancient-arms museum.
Ottoman fortress on the Dniester.
Medieval minaret and mausoleums.
Restored Romanesque-Gothic castle above the Our river, one of the largest west of the Rhine, with a chairlift to the view.
Medieval monastery carved into the hillside near Tskhinvali.
Castle above a horseshoe harbour.
Walled city and ghostly Varosha.
Medieval castle above Balzers.
Gothic abbey ruins in the hills.
13th-century Armenian monastery.
Fjord-like bay and walled old town.
Lithuaniaโs interwar capital: a Gothic castle, the Devilโs Museum and Europeโs largest concentration of modernist architecture.
Mighty medieval castle, UNESCO-listed.
Stone city of a medieval empire, UNESCO-listed.
Red-brick Gothic castle on an island in Lake Galve, home of the Karaim community and their kibinai pastries.
Medieval marble monastery, UNESCO-listed.
Red-brick castle above the Gauja.
Serbian Orthodox monastery with thousands of medieval frescoes, UNESCO-listed.
Hanseatic gables, the House of the Blackheads and St Peterโs spire, ringed by Europeโs finest Art Nouveau streets.
Serbian Orthodox monastery, UNESCO-listed.
A walled Silk Road city preserved whole โ minarets, madrasas and mud walls glowing at dusk.
Round medieval fortress on the Dniester.
An avenue of turquoise-tiled mausoleums in Samarkand, the finest tilework in Central Asia.
Renaissance castle built into the mouth of a cliff cave, with secret tunnels used by a robber knight.
Three grand madrasas on one square.
Dramatic castle ruin perched on a basalt cliff edge.
Living Silk Road museum-city.
A fortified hill inhabited for 5,000 years, its medieval stone ramp and gate towering over the old city.
World's longest tramway to a clifftop monastery.
Medieval monastery partly carved into rock.
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