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The Dampier archipelago stretches from northwestern Australia into the Indian Ocean, its landscape marked by crags and ridges that were formed by the erosion of Precambrian lava activity.

In the midst of the Argentine rainforest stand the ruins of San Ignacio Miní, a seventeenth-century Jesuit mission complex.

At the turn of the twentieth century, Antarctica remained the only continent untouched by humans.

The Haji Piyada Mosque was built in the second half of the ninth century, only two centuries after the establishment of Islam and immediately following its arrival in Central Asia.

The artistic wealth within the Domus Aurea has been studied by historians and artists for centuries, but it was obscured by biological growth and mineral deposits after years of neglect.

The ancient city of Hasankeyf is rich with cultural history and archaeological significance, but the Ilisu Dam project threatens to flood the site.

Despite Bosra’s rich history, the ancient city’s archaeological remains have been damaged due to neglect, vandalism, and armed conflict.

Mexico’s mural masters were at the vanguard of twentieth-century art.

Wonderwerk Cave emerges from the plains of northeastern South Africa, opening on the northern side into the ancient cavity.

Decades of wear, the pressures of growth, and a lack of resources threaten Central University of Venezuela’s modernist campus and its iconic Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism building.

Along the many tributaries of the Amu-dar'ya River, the Desert Castles of Ancient Khorezm emerge from the arid, sandy plains of central Uzbekistan.

Seamlessly woven into the rugged terrain of the American southwest, Frank Lloyd Wright observed that Taliesin West belonged to the Arizona desert as though it had stood there during creation.