Rome, Italy
Pyramid of Cestius
The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.
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Rome, Italy
The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.
Velha Goa, India
The last remaining colonial-era Italian church in Old Goa.
Mumbai, India
Mumbai's angel.
Velha Goa, India
Considered one of the oldest surviving churches in Goa.
Varanasi, India
The octagonal tower at this important Buddhist site was added many years after the temple's initial construction.
Varanasi, India
A bulky, ancient stupa marks the site of Siddhartha Gautama's seminal Buddhist teaching.
Chennai, India
The first English fort built in India.
Kanchipuram, India
An effigy of the deity emerges from a temple's water every 40 years.
Mumbai, India
The place of worship for Zoroastrians, Mumbai's Parsi fire temples use fire and ash for purification.
Chennai, India
A gray market run by Burmese Indians offers a portal to a forgotten period in history.
Mumbai, India
Tucked in Mumbai’s wealthiest neighborhood is one of the city’s oldest and most sacred sites: a temple complex believed to house the waters of the Ganges.
Mumbai, India
A Zoroastrian funerary tower where excarnation rituals are carried out is threatened by the area's dwindling vulture population.
Varanasi, India
Many Hindus make the long pilgrimage to this holy city to have their remains burned on the banks of the Ganges River.
Mumbai, India
World's most expensive home.
Varanasi, India
Known as the leaning temple, the sacred structure has somehow developed a severe nine-degree slant.
Chennai, India
The painted and decorated towers of this Hindu shrine were once the tallest structures in one of the oldest cities in India.
Hampi, India
The ancient water tanks remain some of the ruined city’s most beautiful architecture.
Gharapuri, India
An extraordinary "City of Caves" carved from solid stone.
Madurai, India
This ancient Hindu temple is covered in thousands of colorful statues and has a long mythological history.
Budapest, Hungary
A 13th-century convent where St. Margaret of Hungary spent her teenage years.
Budapest, Hungary
A much-loved sculpture depicting the hero of a 1956 anti-Soviet uprising.
Budapest, Hungary
A scene from one of Hungary's most famous novels.
Budapest, Hungary
A diminutive statue that was inspired by the sculptor's own daughter.
Budapest, Hungary
The holes in this wall provide a glimpse into Jewish life in Budapest, both past and present.