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  1. Reconstructed Stoa of Attalos: a long two-storey colonnaded building with a red-tiled roof above the excavated Agora.
    City

    Athens

    Athens through the Agora: finds span about 5,000 years; the reconstructed Stoa of Attalos houses the site museum and excavation archive.

    Explore Athens

    Photograph: Pedro P. Palazzo · Photo source · CC BY-SA 4.0

  2. Rounded red-brown rock domes of Kata Tjuta rising above desert scrub in the soft light of early morning
    Country

    Australia

    Three Australian regions: Uluru–Kata Tjuta in the Northern Territory, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park off Queensland and Hamelin Pool in Western Australia.

    Explore Australia

    Photograph: Ed Dunens · Photo source · CC BY 2.0

  3. Aerial view of the Semmering Railway’s stone viaducts and tunnel portals set into forested slopes, with the Rax massif on the horizon
    Country

    Austria

    Austria through a mountain railway, a salt-mining valley and a steppe lake shared with Hungary: sourced facts for your map and travel memories.

    Explore Austria

    Photograph: C.Stadler/Bwag · Photo source · CC BY-SA 4.0

  4. Six wooden-framed windows glow with small panes of red, yellow, turquoise and deep blue glass, the upper three in square grids and the lower three with diamond-shaped medallions at their centre
    Country

    Azerbaijan

    Azerbaijan through three places: the Gobustan rock engravings, the walled inner city of Baku and the coloured-glass windows of Sheki Khan’s Palace.

    Explore Azerbaijan

    Photograph: Dario Tortora · Photo source · CC BY-SA 2.0

  5. Brick arches and patterned panels around the Mustansiriyya courtyard in Baghdad
    City

    Baghdad

    An MIT page reads one Mustansiriyya courtyard pattern through an eight-pointed star; a palace of brick and lime and an arched gate add two more details.

    Explore Baghdad

    Photograph: Samir Al-Ibrahem · Photo source · CC BY-SA 4.0

  6. Red-and-white striped lighthouse above a tree-lined Hope Town harbour, with low buildings along the shore and clouds in a blue sky
    Country

    The Bahamas

    A hand-wound lighthouse on Elbow Cay, the 1981 cave-crustacean description from Grand Bahama, and flamingo wetlands on Great Inagua.

    Explore The Bahamas

    Photograph: Rüdiger Stehn · Photo source · CC BY-SA 2.0

  7. A sand-coloured stone fort with rounded corner bastions and a small domed turret rises behind a dry ditch under a clear blue sky, with a few distant tall buildings on the right
    Country

    Bahrain

    A reef channel and sea tower at Qal’at al-Bahrain, royal tombs in A’ali’s village fabric, and decades of dugong records around Hawar.

    Explore Bahrain

    Photograph: Martin Falbisoner · Photo source · CC BY-SA 4.0

  8. Stone-walled courtyard of the Ateshgah at Surakhany with a small flame on a round stone platform and wooden walkways
    City

    Baku

    Baku’s oil and fire heritage: the 1846 Bibi-Heybat well, Villa Petrolea and the Ateshgah at Surakhany. Sourced facts and place names for your map.

    Explore Baku

    Photograph: Bernard Gagnon · Photo source · CC BY 4.0

  9. Aerial view of Bamako’s ACI 2000 neighbourhood with the Niger River beyond
    City

    Bamako

    Regional stone cladding and restaurant levels that follow rock contours in Bamako’s National Park, a project that also joins a museum with trails.

    Explore Bamako

    Photograph: Mark Fischer · Photo source · CC BY-SA 4.0

  10. A replica royal barge with roofed pavilions on the lagoon, with the golden-domed Omar Ali Saifuddien Mosque behind it
    City

    Bandar Seri Begawan

    Kota Batu’s square stone structure with 26 pillar bases, the Maritime Museum’s Brunei Shipwreck gallery and ship-like front, and the lagoon-side mosque.

    Explore Bandar Seri Begawan

    Photograph: Mx. Granger · Photo source · CC0 1.0

  11. Red-brown timber house with a pitched roof among dense garden trees in Bangkok
    City

    Bangkok

    Six old Thai houses were reassembled at the Jim Thompson House in 1958–59; two former servants’ quarters became display space and its Art Center runs exhibitions.

    Explore Bangkok

    Photograph: Clay Gilliland · Photo source · CC BY-SA 2.0

  12. Aerial view of Somapura Mahavihara at Paharpur: a square enclosure of monastery cells around a cross-shaped central shrine, with low ruins across a grassy courtyard
    Country

    Bangladesh

    A Sundarbans tree-ring study, Paharpur’s 177-cell monastery and how Jamdani motifs are worked into cotton on the loom in Narayanganj District.

    Explore Bangladesh

    Photograph: Md. Ahsanul Haque Nayem · Photo source · CC BY-SA 4.0

  13. The broad brown Oubangui River under heavy grey cloud, with a rocky, tree-covered island and a footpath in the foreground and a low green hill on the far bank
    City

    Bangui

    Boulvert says floods moved the French post from Kolongo to a rocky site above Bangui’s rapids; the gauge began in 1911, and Institut Pasteur serves the city.

    Explore Bangui

    Photograph: adrienblanc · Photo source · CC BY 2.0

  14. Rooftops, trees and a street toward the shoreline in Banjul
    City

    Banjul

    Banjul’s National Museum is in a former library building; an oral-history archive keeps recordings, and Arch 22 Museum is listed with “Marabouts and Jujus.”

    Explore Banjul

    Photograph: Dougridge · Photo source · Public domain

  15. Waves break around large coastal rocks at Bathsheba, with palm trees and green hills along the east coast of Barbados.
    Country

    Barbados

    Explore older marine rocks in Barbados’s northeast, water records at Harrison’s Cave and the Crofton house linked to Washington’s 1751 stay.

    Explore Barbados

    Photograph: Postdlf · Photo source · CC BY-SA 3.0

  16. Brick façade of the Hospital de Sant Pau with its clock tower and spire, framed by two ornate brick pillars and palm trees
    City

    Barcelona

    Eixample blocks measure 113.3 m per side; Hospital de Sant Pau arranges its pavilions around two diagonal axes.

    Explore Barcelona

    Photograph: Julian Lupyan · Photo source · CC0 1.0

  17. Colourful fountain within a blue basin at Independence Square in Basseterre, with palms and church towers behind
    City

    Basseterre

    A fountain at Independence Square once drained to a tank by Bay Road. After the 1867 fire Fort Street was widened, and a Glasgow-made memorial holds a clock.

    Explore Basseterre

    Photograph: P. Hughes (Indies1) · Photo source · CC BY-SA 4.0

  18. Beijing skyline and street with tall modern tower
    City

    Beijing

    In Beijing, the Shijia Hutong Museum presents more than 70 street sounds; Dongsi Hutong Museum and the Lao She Memorial Hall occupy courtyard houses.

    Explore Beijing

    Photograph: Kentaro Iemoto · Photo source · CC BY-SA 2.0

  19. Beirut buildings and the Mediterranean coast in daylight
    City

    Beirut

    Beirut restoration records describe hand-blown window glass, woodwork patterns redrawn from fragments and 3D reconstructions of archaeological glass vessels.

    Explore Beirut

    Photograph: L-BBE · Photo source · CC BY 3.0

  20. A red-brick castle with whitewashed upper floors and several towers under pointed tile roofs stands behind a stretch of water under a cloudy sky
    Country

    Belarus

    Mir’s layered castle, Yelnia’s outward-draining mire and Białowieża Forest’s sea-basin divide show three distinct Belarusian landscapes.

    Explore Belarus

    Photograph: Mike1979 Russia · Photo source · CC BY-SA 3.0

  21. Steel gantry of boat lift no. 3 on the Canal du Centre above the canal, reflected in the water
    Country

    Belgium

    Belgium through three places: the Canal du Centre boat lifts in Hainaut, the daily Last Post at the Menin Gate in Ieper and the Atomium built for Expo 58.

    Explore Belgium

    Photograph: Trougnouf (Benoit Brummer) · Photo source · CC BY 4.0

  22. Belgrade’s riverfront and marina in a wide city panorama.
    City

    Belgrade

    An induction motor with an egg-shaped rotor, electrical measuring instruments and drawings on tracing paper: three collections of the Tesla Museum in Belgrade.

    Explore Belgrade

    Photograph: Михајло Анђелковић · Photo source · CC BY-SA 3.0

  23. The Great Blue Hole’s dark circular sinkhole, encircled by pale reef and turquoise shallows, with a small sailboat near the outer rim
    Country

    Belize

    A Great Blue Hole core helps reconstruct Caribbean cyclone frequency; LiDAR reveals Caracol’s landscape beneath forest, while Cockscomb cameras identify jaguars.

    Explore Belize

    Photograph: The TerraMar Project · Photo source · CC BY 2.0

  24. Belmopan market building and nearby streets under a bright sky
    City

    Belmopan

    Belmopan’s archives keep 1957 mahogany-cutter songs; its heritage and public libraries preserve and share other kinds of local record.

    Explore Belmopan

    Photograph: Haakon S. Krohn · Photo source · CC BY-SA 3.0

  25. A low earthen palace with a steep red corrugated-metal roof, open bays and small coloured relief panels in its ochre walls, standing on bare red ground beneath a pale sky
    Country

    Benin

    Benin through three local stories: Getty’s palace-relief work in Abomey, dry-season pools along the Pendjari and branch-built fishing structures on Lake Nokoué.

    Explore Benin

    Photograph: Ji-Elle · Photo source · CC BY-SA 4.0

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