Round medieval fortress on the Dniester.
Three grand madrasas on one square.
Dramatic castle ruin perched on a basalt cliff edge.
A walled Silk Road city preserved whole โ minarets, madrasas and mud walls glowing at dusk.
An avenue of turquoise-tiled mausoleums in Samarkand, the finest tilework in Central Asia.
Living Silk Road museum-city.
Renaissance castle built into the mouth of a cliff cave, with secret tunnels used by a robber knight.
A fortified hill inhabited for 5,000 years, its medieval stone ramp and gate towering over the old city.
The great Crusader castle, UNESCO-listed.
Medieval monastery partly carved into rock.
World's longest tramway to a clifftop monastery.
Fairytale medieval walled city, UNESCO-listed.
15th-century mosque at Bagerhat, UNESCO-listed.
Fifteenth-century royal complex at the heart of Bakuโs walled old city.
Medieval capital on the Yantra gorge.
Fifteenth-century monasteries frescoed inside and out, still vivid.
Medieval Newar royal square of pagodas and wood-carved palaces.
16th-century castle, UNESCO-listed.
Island castle at the meeting of three sea lochs โ Scotlandโs most photographed.
One of Europeโs largest castle ruins, sprawled across a travertine hill.
Baltic island of rauk sea stacks and the Hanseatic walled town of Visby.
Crooked wooden wharf houses of the old Hanseatic trading quarter.
Fairy-tale town wrapped in a bend of the Vltava, with a painted castle tower and a baroque theatre that still works.
Stockholmโs medieval old town of narrow lanes and the Royal Palace.
Walled medieval town of whitewashed lanes and bougainvillea, where ginjinha cherry liqueur is served in chocolate cups.
Storybook fortress on a rock island ringed by a river canyon.
Lean backwards over a drop from the castle battlements to kiss the stone that grants the gift of the gab.
Lake city with a covered wooden bridge.
Greek Orthodox monastery clinging to a sheer cliff face in the Pontic Mountains.
Historic fortress and the Crown Jewels.
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