
Prambanan
Prambanan is the ninth century Hindu temple compound in Central Java, Indonesia.
Prambanan is the ninth century Hindu temple compound in Central Java, Indonesia.
A 16-storey office building in Fukushima-ku, Osaka, Japan. It is notable because a highway passes through the building.
The Jantar Mantar is a collection of architectural astronomical instruments, built by Maharaja Jai Singh II at his then new capital of Jaipur between 1727 and 1734. It is modeled after the one that he had built for him at the then Mughal capital of Delhi.
The Maunsell Sea Forts were small fortified towers built in the Thames and Mersey estuaries during the Second World War to help defend the United Kingdom.
The Alcázar of Seville is a royal palace in Seville, Spain.
Dry Tortugas National Park preserves Fort Jefferson and the Dry Tortugas section of the Florida Keys. It is famous for abundant sea life, colourful coral reefs and legends of shipwrecks and sunken treasures. The park's centrepiece is Fort Jefferson, a massive but unfinished coastal fortress. It is the largest masonry structure in the Western Hemisphere, and is composed of over 16 million bricks.
Skovshoved Petrol Station is a historic, still-operating filling station in Skovshoved at the northern outskirts of Copenhagen, Denmark. First opened in 1936, it was designed by Arne Jacobsen and is an example of the functionalist style typical of the time.
In Renaissance Europe, long before the concept of organ donation could have been envisioned, cadavers were given a new life as architectural ornaments, and skeletons were put to use as building materials. Why continue piling up bones in an ossuary when you could put them to practical use-or better yet, turn them into a thing of beauty? Thus began the oddest interior-decorating style in history: rooms made entirely of human bones.
Based in the Russian city of Archangelsk, ex-gangster Nikolai originally intended the building to contain two floors but couldn’t help himself when he realized there was nothing to stop him adding more on top.
The Solovetsky Islands of northern Russia are probably best known for the Solovetsky Monastery, a great medieval monastery that became a notorious Soviet prison camp. But these remote islands were sacred for thousands of years before the monastery's foundation in 1429, as evidenced by an array of stone alignments, circles, and mysterious labyrinths that can still be seen there today.