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Palaces

A three story outer wall with arches on the first floor and alternating white and red stonework.

Istanbul, Turkey

Palace of the Porphyrogenitus

Byzantine emperors ruled, lived, and died in this 13th-century palace-turned-museum.

A large bone hangs from a chain in a church.

The Mammoth Bone

A massive mammoth bone has been on display inside this church since the 18th century.

Palacio Episcopal

An Antoni Gaudí masterpiece in Astorga.

Sultan Al Kathiri Palace

One of the largest mud-brick structures in the world.

Main hall inside the Ráday Palace

Pécel, Hungary

Ráday Palace

A seemingly unassuming palace near Budapest hides a stupendously decorated hall.

Namak Haram Deorhi

Murshidabad, India

Namak Haram Deorhi

Known as the "Traitor's Gate."

Hazarduari Palace

Murshidabad, India

Hazarduari Palace

In the palace with a thousand doors, not all of them are guaranteed to lead you somewhere new.

Podcast: Empress Anna’s Ice Palace

The spectacle in St. Petersburg, Russia, was the site of an incredibly strange wedding.

The Podcast Team January 25, 2023

Russian painter Valery Jacobi's 1878 <em>Ice House</em> depicts the jester, Mikhail Golitsyn, and the Kalmyk woman, Avdotia Buzheninova, being paraded to their icy bed chamber.

The Time a Russian Empress Built an Ice Palace and Forced Her Jester To Get Married In It

Cruel joke, power move, or both?

Sarah Durn October 4, 2022

Palais de l’Île

A fortified palace in the shape of a ship on the Thiou river.

Palau Guell

Barcelona, Spain

Palau Güell

One of Antoni Gaudí’s earliest buildings, built between 1886 and 1890 for the industrialist Eusebi Güell.

Presidential Palace

Bissau, Guinea-Bissau

Presidential Palace

Built by Portuguese colonizers, the palace is now the seat of power for the independent nation.

The Blue Palace

The Blue Palace

Once home to some 250,000 volumes and priceless art artifacts, this Polish estate was a target of bombing during World War II.

Walking into Gidan Rumfa

Gidan Rumfa (Emir's Palace)

Walk through history in a palace that has seen centuries of Muslim rulers.

The front facade of the palace.

Tallinn, Estonia

Kadriorg Palace

A spectacular Petrine Baroque summer palace commissioned for Catherine I by Peter the Great.

Earlier this year, excavations at Wolseong Palace unearthed more evidence of human sacrifice during its construction.

Why Were Human Sacrifices Buried Beneath Ancient Korea's 'Moon Castle'?

Remains sealed in the foundations suggest builders would do anything to protect the heart of a fledgling kingdom.

Bridget Alex October 15, 2021

Dormitories. The dormitories housed up to forty men. In the cells, the counting of inmates was carried out three times a day and was followed by checking the railings with a wooden club to verify their status. The prisoners were also searched when they went to and from the work that took place in the 'agricultural estate'.

Palazzo d'Avalos

This stately palace, first built in the 16th century, was converted into a prison in 1830.

Velha Goa, India

Gate of the Palace of Adil Shah

The lone remnant of a 16th-century palace in Old Goa.