Six hundred traditional hanok houses on a hill between two palaces, still lived in, with Seoul’s towers behind the tiled roofs.
Twenty-five thatched farmhouses and a kabuki stage moved from across Japan into a wooded park — the old countryside in one walk.
Land of fortified tower-houses, UNESCO-listed.
Hausa palace of banco walls and painted geometry in Zinder’s old quarter.
Reconstructed thatched palace of the Rwandan kings, complete with the long-horned Inyambo cattle kept for ceremony.
Kassena village where the women repaint the mud houses every year with black, white and red geometric patterns.
Whitewashed covered alleys of a Saharan oasis town, the "pearl of the desert".
Earthen palaces of the kings of Dahomey, a UNESCO site.
Great Mud Mosque town, UNESCO-listed.
Swahili island town of donkeys, dhows and carved doorways.
Wind-tower houses, the Dubai Museum and an abra boat across the Creek to the gold and spice souks — Dubai before the towers.
Red riverside warehouses and wooden lanes in Finland’s second-oldest town.
Highland Sulawesi region of boat-shaped tongkonan houses and cliff graves, where funerals last for days and draw the whole village.
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