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🇫🇷 France · Archaeological wonder
The Château de Navarre was a château near Évreux in Normandy. The medieval structure was built for Queen Joan II of Navarre (wife of Count Philip of Évreux) and later came into the possession of the…
🇧🇪 Belgium · Archaeological wonder
Naulette, French: Caverne de la Naulette is a large cave located in Wallonia on the left bank of the Lesse, a tributary of the Meuse in the hills above Dinant, Belgium.
🇳🇵 Nepal · Temple complex
Guhyeshwari Temple (Nepali: गुह्येश्वरी मन्दिर), also spelled Guheswari or Gujeshwari, is a Hindu temple in Kathmandu, Nepal.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient city
Adullam (Hebrew: עֲדֻלָּם, romanized: ʿĂḏullām, Koine Greek: Οδολλάμ) is an ancient ruin once numbered among the thirty-six cities of Canaan whose kings "Joshua and the children of Israel smote"…
🇨🇴 Colombia · Ancient city
Aguazuque is a pre-Columbian archaeological site located in the western part of the municipality Soacha, close to the municipalities Mosquera and San Antonio del Tequendama in Cundinamarca, Colombia.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Alampuram Navabrahma Temples are a group of nine early Badami Chalukyan Hindu temples dated between the 7th and 9th centuries that are located at Alampuram (Hemalapuram) in Telangana, India, near the…
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Alampuram Papanasi Temples are a group of twenty three Hindu temples dated between 9th- and 11th-century that have been relocated to the southwest of Alampuram village in Telangana.
🇵🇹 Portugal · Megalith
The Anta da Pedra dos Mouros (Stone of the Moors), also known as the Anta do Senhor da Serra (Lord of the Mountains), is a megalithic dolmen situated near Belas and Queluz in the Lisbon District of…
🇺🇸 United States · Temple complex
BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir is a Hindu temple in Houston, Texas, built by the BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha.
🇬🇹 Guatemala · Ancient city
Balberta is a major Mesoamerican archaeological site on the Pacific coastal plain of southern Guatemala, belonging to the Maya civilization.
🇮🇷 Iran · Temple complex
The Bandian Fire Temple (Persian: محوطه باستانی بندیان) is an archaeological site in Dargaz County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran, near the medieval city Abiward.
🇮🇱 Israel · Ancient village
Beit She'arim (Hebrew: בית שערים; Imperial Aramaic: בית שריי / Bet Sharei), also Besara (Greek: Βήσαρα), was a Jewish village located in the southwestern hills of the Lower Galilee, during the Roman…
🇵🇱 Poland · Necropolis
Bodzia Cemetery is a large 10th- to 11th-century chamber burial site in Bodzia, a town in the Kuyavia region of Central Poland, approximately 15 km to the northwest of Włocławek.
🇺🇦 Ukraine · Fortress
Charax (Ancient Greek: Χάραξ, gen.: Χάρακος) is the largest Roman military settlement excavated in the Crimea.
🇦🇹 Austria · Cave
Drachenhöhle or Drachenhöhle Mixnitz (literally Dragon's Cave of Mixnitz) is a 542 m (1,778 ft) long cave with a 20 m (66 ft) wide and 12 m (39 ft) high entrance near Mixnitz, Styria, Austria,…
🇿🇦 South Africa · Ancient city
The Dzata Ruins (or Dzana ruins), an archaeological site in Dzanani in the Makhado municipality, Vhembe district, in the north of South Africa, is one of the national monuments in South Africa.
🇵🇪 Peru · Archaeological wonder
El Castillo de Huarmey (English: "the Castle on the River Huarmey") is a pyramid-like structure on the coast of Peru, in the Ancash Region north of Lima, the most studied section of the archeological…
🇧🇴 Bolivia · Megalith
The Gate of the Sun, also known as the Gateway of the Sun (in older literature simply called "(great) monolithic Gateway of Ak-kapana"), is a monolithic gateway at the site of Tiahuanaco, built by…
🇮🇳 India · Ancient city
Gauḍa (also known as Gaur, Gour, Lakhnauti, Lakshmanavati and Jannatabad) is a historic city of Bengal in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent, and one of the most prominent capitals of…
🇯🇴 Jordan · Archaeological wonder
Iraq ed-Dubb, or the Cave of the Bear, is an early Neolithic archeological site 7 km (4.3 mi) northwest of Ajlun in the Jordan Valley, in modern-day Jordan.
🇨🇳 China · Archaeological wonder
The Jingtai Mausoleum (Chinese: 景泰陵; pinyin: Jǐngtàilíng) is the mausoleum of the Jingtai Emperor, the seventh emperor of the Ming dynasty.
🇮🇱 Israel · Temple complex
Jish (Arabic: الجش, al-Jiŝ), also known by its Hebrew name of Gush Halab (Hebrew: גּוּשׁ חָלָב, Gūŝ Ḥālāḇ), or by its classical name of Gischala, is a local council in Upper Galilee, located on the…
🇲🇽 Mexico · Ancient city
Ake (or Aké in Spanish orthography) is an archaeological site of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization.
🇦🇱 Albania · Ancient city
Amantia (Ancient Greek: Ἀμάντια, Ἀβάντια; Latin: Amantia) was an ancient city and the main settlement of the Amantes, traditionally located in southern Illyria in classical antiquity.