🇦🇲 Armenia · Archaeological wonder
Areni
Areni (Armenian: Արենի) is a village and the center of the Areni Municipality of the Vayots Dzor Province in Armenia.
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🇦🇲 Armenia · Archaeological wonder
Areni (Armenian: Արենի) is a village and the center of the Areni Municipality of the Vayots Dzor Province in Armenia.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Hathiagor Buddhist Caves are located at village Pagaria in the state of Rajasthan, India. The caves are located on hill called Hathiagor-ki-Pahadi. The group has five caves measuring 5 m x 5 m x 7 m.
🇬🇷 Greece · Ancient city
Bessa (Ancient Greek: Βῆσσα) was a town in ancient Locris, so called from its situation in a wooded glen. It is mentioned by Homer, in the Catalogue of Ships in the Iliad.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Cochabamba (possibly from Quechua qucha lake, pampa a large plain) is an archaeological site of the Inca period in Peru.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Temple complex
Calder Abbey in Cumbria was a Savigniac monastery founded in 1134 by Ranulph de Gernon, 2nd Earl of Chester, and moved to this site following a refoundation in 1142. It became Cistercian in 1148.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Chacamarca Historic Sanctuary (Spanish: Santuario Histórico de Chacamarca), is a historical site in Junín Province, Junín, Peru.
🇵🇰 Pakistan · Archaeological wonder
Gor Khatri (Urdu and Hindko: گورکهتری; Pashto: ګورکترۍ; lit. 'Grave of Kshatriya') is an archeological site located in Peshawar, Pakistan.
🇮🇷 Iran · Cave
Ghar-e-Pariyan is a cave near Isfahan. It is situated at an altitude of 2967 m above sea level. Its entrance measures approximately 1.6 x 1.2 meters. It is located in Iran, not Iraq.
🇮🇶 Iraq · Temple complex
Al-Zaqura Palace (Arabic: قصر الزقورة) is an Iraqi government building situated in the Green Zone in the capital Baghdad.
🇳🇵 Nepal · Temple complex
The Bhimsen Mandir or Bhimsen Temple is an 18th-century Hindu temple located in Nalamukh, Pokhara, Nepal. Bhimsen is the patron deity of people of Newari ethnicity.
🇰🇭 Cambodia · Ancient city
According to inscription on the stele of Sdok Kok Thom, Indrapura (Khmer: ឥន្ទ្របុរៈ) or Amarendrapura (Khmer: អមរិន្ទ្របុរៈ) was the first capital of Jayavarman II reign about 781, before the…
🇮🇹 Italy · Tomb
The Catacombs of San Valentino (Italian: Catacombe di San Valentino) is one of the catacombs of Rome (Italy), placed at the 2nd mile of the via Flaminia, now in Viale Maresciallo Pilsudski, in the…
🇱🇧 Lebanon · Archaeological wonder
Kfar Abida_Fadous (Arabic كفرعبيدا _فدعوس), sometimes spelled Kfar Aabida_Fadaous or Kfaraabida_Fad'ous, is a village located 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) south of Batroun in the Batroun District of the…
🇵🇪 Peru · Tomb
The Catacombs of Lima (Spanish: Catacumbas de Lima) are underground ossuaries in the historic centre of Lima, Peru.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Ghar el-Melh (Arabic: غارالملح, Ghar al-Milh, "Salt Grotto"), the classical Rusucmona and Castra Delia and colonial Porto Farina, is a town and former port on the southern side of Cape Farina in…
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Hydraulic works
The Caledonian Canal connects the Scottish east coast at Inverness with the west coast at Corpach near Fort William in Scotland.
🇪🇸 Spain · Rock shelter
Late Pleistocene
The Abrigo de la Quebrada is an archaeological site in the municipality of Chelva, in the Spanish Province of Valencia, ca. 65 km northwest of the city of Valencia.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
Guellayhuasin (possibly from Quechua q'illay iron, wasi house) is an archaeological site in Peru.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Geoglyph
Craigmillar (from Gaelic Creag a' Mhaol Àird, "rock of the bare summit") is an area of Edinburgh, Scotland, about 3 miles (4.8 km) south east of the city centre, with Duddingston to the north and…
🇯🇵 Japan · Temple complex
Joraku-ji (Joraku Temple) (Japanese: 常楽寺) is a Koyasan Shingon temple in Tokushima, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan. Temple # 14 on the Shikoku 88 temple pilgrimage.
🇮🇷 Iran · Archaeological wonder
The Castle of Aamaj (from Arabic: قلعة آماج, (Persian: قلعه آماج), Aamaj castle is one of the most significant examples for trench-enclosed, fortified structures in the Kukherd District, Hormozgan province in south Iran.
🇰🇪 Kenya · Archaeological wonder
Enkorika is a village and neolithic site in Kenya's Rift Valley Province. It is located in an upslope area, about 100 by 130 m. It was an Iron Age smelting site. Geologically it forms part of the Enkorika Fissure Zone.
🇯🇵 Japan · Temple complex
Gokuraku-ji (極楽寺) is a Kōya-san Shingon temple in Naruto, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan. Temple 2 of the Shikoku 88 temple pilgrimage, the main image is of Amida Nyorai. The temple is said to have been founded by Gyōki.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Fortress
Edin's Hall Broch (also Edinshall Broch; Woden's Hall Broch) is a 2nd-century broch near Duns in the Borders of Scotland. It is one of very few brochs found in southern Scotland. It is roughly 28 metres in diameter.