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A small town in Rajasthan has been dubbed the "City of Stepwells," and Raniji ki Baori is the queen.

This ancient Silk Road outpost overlooking the Wakhan Valley is miraculously still standing.

A former bastion of Rajput chivalry, this massive hill fort is the site of legend and tragedy.

The abandoned funicular tunnel was a secret base for the BBC during World War II.

This 1939 grave of a British soldier now receives legions of unlikely visitors.

Over 100 towers were built in Bologna during the Middle Ages, but only 22 survive.

The most elaborate of 12 medieval arched doorways to the old city of Burgos.

This triumphal 16th-century arched gateway leads to the oldest street in Palermo.

Putrefaction plateaus in Iran, where the dead were sent for decontamination before going to their final resting place.

Long before air conditioning, Persian architects found an ingenious way to cool off.

The tower in this 1,000-year-old mud-brick village seems to vibrate for no apparent reason.

Ancient structures used to make and preserve ice in the deserts of Persia.

This beautiful arched gate is all that remains of the fortress the ancient mountaintop town of Amadiya once was.

An ancient Viking runestone hidden in plain view in Stockholm's old town.

This ancient fortress in Iran was once the oldest and largest treasury in the world.

German and American troops joined forces to defend this fortress during the strangest battle of World War II.

This architecturally eclectic fortress witnessed centuries of bloody turmoil, including the massacre of its ruling clan.

Though much of the castle was robbed of its stones, the underlying earthworks are among the best-preserved in England.

These historic defenses ensured the city within would survive hundreds of years of occupations, sieges, and invasions.

This amazingly preserved Doric temple was abandoned before it was ever completed.

Tourists to the mountaintop Sicilian town often overlook its ancient fortifications.

The castle still holds traces of the abandoned Roman fort it was built atop.

The oldest still-inhabited hill fort in India looks like a magnificent golden sandcastle.

The evocative ruins of a 1,000-year-old hill fort lie within a popular tiger reserve.