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The area along the West Bank of the Nile at Luxor contains some of the most important archaeological sites in the world.

Commissioned by the Mamluk Sultan Al Muayyad Shaikh Ak Mahmudi (r 1412-21), the Bimaristan, or Sultan al Muayyad Hospital, was founded in 1418 as Cairo's main infirmary.

Shunet el-Zebib was built circa 2750 BC.

Hierakonpolis was the Predynastic capital of Upper Egypt, and grew to prominence in the mid-third millennium BC Dominating the site is an imposing structure built of unfired mud-brick.

The highest concentration of historic houses and structures in the coastal city of Guayaquil is in the neighborhood of Las Peñas.

Built in 1879 by R. Deeley & Co., a New York firm, the Puerto Plata Lighthouse once served as a beacon for ships traversing the Atlantic.

Built in 1316, St. Ann’s Church stands at the foot of the Charles Bridge in the Old Town of Prague.

Jan Blažej Santini-Aichel (1677-1723) was one of the greatest architects of baroque Europe.

Founded in the twelfth century by Magifico of Hroznata to administer to a scarcely populated region in the Bohemian borderlands, Chotěšov Monastery was at the epicenter of religious conflict.

When nuns established the Santa Teresa convent in 1707 and the cloisters later in the century, they employed Havana's most skilled carpenters, muralists, tile makers, and other artisans.

For more than two decades, famed author Ernest Hemingway occupied Finca Vigia, a hilltop villa 20 kilometers east of Havana.

The nineteenth century Calzada del Cerro in Havana, Cuba, is a sinuous colonnaded street that stretches more than three kilometers from Old Havana to the barrio of El Cerro.