Lahore, Pakistan
Tomb of Dai Anga
The beautifully tiled, hidden resting place of Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan’s wet nurse, tucked away behind a bustling railway track.
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Lahore, Pakistan
The beautifully tiled, hidden resting place of Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan’s wet nurse, tucked away behind a bustling railway track.
Hong Kong
Despite being built 50 years ago, this housing estate's unconventional design gives it a futuristic, sci-fi aesthetic.
Al Ghayl, Saudi Arabia
A 400-year-old ruined palace on top of a hill, overlooking the sleepy village of Al-Ghayl, some 300 km south of Riyadh.
Gloucester, England
The tomb of a deposed king that drew medieval pilgrims to Gloucester
Pune, India
An ancient hilltop cave temple of Lord Shiva offers breathtaking views of the city
Pune, India
An ancient Lord Balaji temple with a huge artistic spire has a unique idol of the deity
Herxheim bei Landau/Pfalz, Germany
Inside the Herxheim museum can be seen the horrifying remains of what were probably the victims of acts of prehistoric mass cannibalism
Lavenham, England
A soaring wool-money church towering over a preserved medieval village
Stratford Saint Mary, England
Situated on an ancient road to London, a medieval couple had a one-of-a-kind billboard made to pray for their souls in the afterlife
Lucknow, India
This cemetery within the sprawling Residency Complex in Lucknow was first used during the Siege in 1857
Lucknow, India
This gigantic 18th-century gateway in Lucknow was built to provide relief and employment to the people during a famine
Bakı, Azerbaijan
The world's largest KFC restaurant is housed in a historic railway station in Azerbaijan's capital city
Kobe, Japan
A stunning, storied set of waterfalls you can walk to from the city’s main train station in less than 15 minutes
Staunton, Virginia
This house of worship contains a dozen stained glass windows by a renowned manufacturer
Mexico City, Mexico
This modernist church features an impressively tall mural
Bath, England
Legend has it that Bishop Oliver King dreamed of angels ascending to heaven and ordered the church's reconstruction in the late 1400s
Madrid, Spain
Most visits to the Almudena Cathedral in Madrid ignore the eeriest part of the building, its crypt
Dumfries, Scotland
These ruins of a Gothic church hold the tomb of Princess Margaret, Lady of Galloway
Wells, England
An architectural masterpiece which came in time to solve a dramatic situation inside this magnificent cathedral
Tarragona, Spain
Modernist funerary masterpiece
Cape Town, South Africa
A 3,500-ton British turret steamer, carrying coal, ran aground here in 1914
Moskva, Russia
A tea merchant built a dazzling Chinoiserie mansion in the 1890s to impress a Chinese ambassador
Basrah, Iraq
Saddam Hussein’s abandoned 1980s mega yacht is scuttled in the Shatt al-Arab waterway, its name meaning “The Victor”
Phoenix, Arizona
A petroglyph purportedly left by the first European to enter Arizona