Hove Methodist Church
A Grade II–listed red-brick Methodist chapel founded in late 19th-century Hove, extended in the 1960s, and now a focus for worship and community activities.
Westminster Cathedral
Westminster Cathedral is England and Wales’s largest Catholic church, a masterpiece of striped brick and stone completed in 1903 without steel reinforcement.
Vilkaviškis Cathedral
A Romanesque cathedral in southern Lithuania, elevated to diocesan seat in 1926, severely damaged by Soviet dismantling, then comprehensively restored after independence.
St. Bernward, Hanover
A Romanesque Revival basilica in Hanover consecrated in 1893 and dedicated to the medieval saint Bernward of Hildesheim, completed after World War II with major artworks added in 1993.
Roonstrasse Synagogue
Cologne’s sole surviving pre-Nazi synagogue, this Orthodox Jewish congregation space stands as a rare architectural witness to the city’s interrupted religious history.
UNESCO World Heritage Sites Near Kigali: the Nyungwe Forest Reserve and the Virunga Volcanoes
Rwanda has no inscribed UNESCO sites; nearest heritage is Virunga NP in DRC (mountain gorillas, 100 km northwest) and Nyungwe Forest (13 primate species, 220 km southwest).
UNESCO World Heritage Sites Near Bujumbura: Nyungwe Forest and the Kahuzi-Biega National Park
Burundi has no UNESCO sites. Nearest: Kahuzi-Biega NP in DRC (200 km northwest, 1980, eastern lowland gorillas) and Nyungwe Forest in Rwanda (200 km northeast, 13 primate species).
Who Is Photographing Europe’s Twentieth-Century Architecture
Public domain ends where the twentieth century begins. The independent photographers who built the visual record of post-war Europe, and why those archives are fragile.
UNESCO World Heritage Sites Near Porto-Novo: the Royal Palaces of Abomey and the Koutammakou Landscape
Benin has 2 UNESCO sites near Porto-Novo: Royal Palaces of Abomey (140 km northwest, inscribed 1985) — archive of the Kingdom of Dahomey — and Koutammakou earthen tower-houses (2004).
Stattreisen München: the association that taught Munich to be seen on foot
The Viktualienmarkt in Munich’s old town, a few minutes from the pedestrian streets that made city walking tours possible. Photo: