The torch-bearing symbol of New York.
Ceremonial capital of the Persian Empire.
Xi'an's buried army of clay warriors.
Galleries leading to the Sistine Chapel.
Maya city of carved stelae, UNESCO-listed.
Sacred forest of shrines and sculpture along the Osun river, a UNESCO site.
Medieval capital explored by bicycle — the Gal Vihara rock Buddhas and the royal palace ruins.
The "citadel of women": pink sandstone carved so finely it is called the jewel of Khmer art.
The guardian lion of the Giza plateau.
Ramesses II's colossal rock-cut temples.
Colossal stone heads ringing a mountaintop royal tomb from the 1st century BC.
Rock-cut cave temples in Maharashtra, crowned by the monolithic Kailasa temple.
71-metre Buddha carved into a river cliff in Sichuan — the largest stone Buddha in the world.
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