The Taj Mahal is a white marble building in Agra, India, located on the right bank of the Yamuna River. It was built by Shah Jahan, the fifth Mughal emperor, to house the tomb of his wife, Mumtaz Mahal. The tomb also includes the resting place of Shah Jahan himself.
The Bazaar of Tabriz, also known as Bāzār-e Tabriz in Persian and Tabriz Bazari in Azerbaijani, is a historic market located in central Tabriz, Iran. It is among the oldest bazaars in the Middle East and the largest covered bazaar in the world. The site is recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Iran.
The Glarus thrust (German: Glarner Überschiebung) is a major fault in the Alps of eastern Switzerland. This fault caused the Helvetic rock layers to move more than 100 km north over the Aarmassif and Infrahelvetic complex. The thrust marks the boundary between older Permo-Triassic rocks of the Verrucano group and younger Jurassic and Cretaceous limestones, as well as Paleogene flysch and molasse.
The Summer Palace, also known as Yihe Garden (simplified Chinese: 颐和园; traditional Chinese: 頤和園; pinyin: Yíhéyuán), was built by Chinese Empress Cixi as a place for rest and quiet reflection. It is a large area in Beijing that includes lakes, gardens, and palaces. During the Qing dynasty, it was an imperial garden and features Longevity Hill (万寿山; 萬壽山; Wànshòu Shān), Kunming Lake, and the Seventeen Hole Bridge.
The Sulayman Mountain, also known as Sulaiman-Too in Kyrgyz (written in the Roman alphabet as “Sulaiman-Too,” meaning “Sulayman Rock”), is the sole World Heritage Site entirely within Kyrgyzstan. It is located in the city of Osh and was once an important place for people to visit before the time of Islam.
Su Nuraxi is an archaeological site located in Barumini, Sardinia, Italy. The name “Su Nuraxi” means “The Nuraghe” in Campidanese, which is a southern dialect of the Sardinian language. Su Nuraxi is a settlement that includes a nuraghe, a type of ancient tower, built around 1700 BC.
The Struve Geodetic Arc is a series of survey triangulation points that stretch from Hammerfest in Norway to the Black Sea, passing through ten countries and covering over 2,820 kilometers (1,750 miles). This chain provided the first accurate measurement of a meridian arc, which is a line of longitude on Earth. The chain was created and used by Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, a German-born Russian scientist, between 1816 and 1855.
The Grande Île (French pronunciation: [ɡʁɑ̃d il]; German: Große Insel; “Large Island”) is an island located in the historic center of Strasbourg, France. Its name comes from the fact that it is surrounded on one side by the main channel of the Ill River and on the other side by the Canal du Faux-Rempart, a canal that is part of the same river. The Grande Île was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1988.
Stonehenge, Avebury, and Associated Sites is a UNESCO World Heritage Site (WHS) located in Wiltshire, England. The WHS includes two large areas of land that are about 24 kilometers (15 miles) apart. These areas are not a single building or monument.
Stone Town, also called Mji Mkongwe (which means “old town” in Swahili), is the old part of Zanzibar City, the main city of Zanzibar in Tanzania. The newer part of the city is called Ng’ambo, which means “the other side” in Swahili. Stone Town is located on the western coast of Unguja, the main island of the Zanzibar Archipelago.