Mount Tai – Sacred Mountain of China, Shandong – Virtual Tour 360°
For three thousand years, the mountain known as Tai Shan — Eastern Sacred Peak, Taishan, Mount Tai — has been the most venerated of China’s Five Sacred…
Jantar Mantar, Jaipur – 18th-Century Royal Observatory, India – Virtual Tour 360°
Built between 1727 and 1734 by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II of Jaipur, the Jantar Mantar (“instrument of calculation” in Sanskrit) is an observatory of…
Dengfeng – Astronomical Observatories in the Centre of Heaven and Earth, Henan
In Chinese cosmology, the axis connecting heaven and earth — the zhongtu, or “centre of the earth” — was believed to pass through Mount Song in Henan…
Krak des Chevaliers – Crusader Fortress, Syria – Virtual Tour 360°
T. E. Lawrence visited the Krak des Chevaliers in 1909 as a young Oxford student researching his thesis on Crusader military architecture. His verdict…
Al-Maghtas – Baptism Site of Jesus Christ, Jordan
On the eastern bank of the Jordan River, 9 kilometres north of the Dead Sea, lies Al-Maghtas — in Arabic, “the place of immersion.” This is the site…
Cát Bà Archipelago – Ha Long Bay Extension, Vietnam – Virtual Tour 360°
Cát Bà Island, the largest in the Cát Bà Archipelago, stands at the eastern edge of the iconic Ha Long Bay karst landscape in northeastern Vietnam. With an…
Gulangyu Island – Historic International Settlement, Xiamen
Gulangyu — “Drum Wave Island” in Chinese — is a small island (1.88 km²) separated from Xiamen by a 700-metre strait. In the late 19th century, it became an…
Citadelle Laferrière – Fortress of Haitian Independence, Cap-Haïtien
On a mountain summit 970 metres above the Caribbean coast of northern Haiti, the Citadelle Laferrière stands as the most powerful symbol of Haitian…
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus – Victorian Gothic Railway, Mumbai – Virtual Tour 360°
Completed in 1888, the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus — known until 1996 as Victoria Terminus (VT) — is the most extraordinary railway station in the…
Copán – Maya Ruins, Honduras – Virtual Tour 360°
Copán — called by scholars the “Athens of the Maya” for the extraordinary sophistication of its art and writing — was the capital of a major Maya kingdom…