Visit the Registan in Samarkand

An avenue of turquoise-tiled mausoleums in Samarkand, the finest tilework in Central Asia.

Living Silk Road museum-city.

A walled Silk Road city preserved whole — minarets, madrasas and mud walls glowing at dusk.

Moorish palace-fortress of Granada.

Paris’s 850-year-old Gothic cathedral, reopened after the 2019 fire with its spire and oak roof rebuilt by hand.

Eighty-two white marble domes, the world’s largest hand-knotted carpet and reflective pools — Abu Dhabi’s masterpiece.

15th-century mosque at Bagerhat, UNESCO-listed.

Medieval minaret and mausoleums.