Strand Hotel, Yangon
The Sarkies brothers’ riverfront palace – with Raffles and the E&O, one of the three great grand hotels of colonial Asia, restored to its teak-and-marbleā¦
The Sarkies brothers’ riverfront palace – with Raffles and the E&O, one of the three great grand hotels of colonial Asia, restored to its teak-and-marbleā¦
The Big Station – police barracks, magistracy, and Victoria Prison of the colonial century, reborn as Hong Kong’s heritage-and-arts citadel.
The largest church of the Caribbean – iron-framed against hurricanes, painted within by Dunstan St Omer in the islands’ boldest sacred murals.
The French fort above the Caribbean’s prettiest harbour – and the courtyard where Maurice Bishop’s execution in 1983 triggered the American invasion.
The Royal Navy’s Caribbean home port – the only continuously working Georgian dockyard in the world, UNESCO-listed with the slave-built genius of its harbour.
The fort whose cannon point inland – built against the Garifuna, not the French, above Kingstown’s harbour and the Grenadines’ sail-strewn horizon.
The garrison reclaimed from the jungle – site of the 1802 revolt of the 8th West India Regiment that helped win free status for the empire’s Black soldiers.
Sixty-six steps hewn through solid limestone by enslaved workers – Nassau’s gorge of memory climbing to the paddle-wheel fort above the town.
The Mountain at Night – Moshoeshoe’s unconquered plateau where the Basotho nation was forged and its kings still rest.
The hill of the sacred drums – where the ritual drummers of Burundi, UNESCO-honoured, keep the kingdom’s heartbeat over the thousand hills.