The second-highest village in Lazio has attracted artists for 400 years and is now a spectacular open-air art gallery.

An ancient iron pillar in Delhi that seems to be rustproof.

A blooming house of worship for the masses.

An imperial fortress city that incorporated cultural elements from the entire Mughal empire, only to be abandoned the year it was finished.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

The world's second-largest sundial, made entirely out of stone.

This precariously balanced boulder is said to be a hunk of stolen butter dropped by the gods.

Modest by day, illuminated majestically at sunset.