The village of Leadhills originated as a community of lead miners working in the ore fields of the Lowther Hills…
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Built in 1799, this structure basically consists of a tall, vertical oak frame fitted with a heavy steel blade with…
Across the Daugava River from Riga's Old Town, just a short walk from the National Library of Latvia, sits a…
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If you search for images of suspension bridges in Pakistan, you'll see an array of impossibly long and impossibly rickety…
Charles Addams studied architecture at the University of Pennsylvania in the 1930s. In 2001, the building at 200 S. 36th Street…
Model ship making is an art almost as old as that of making regular-sized ships, as these models were often…
Located in the heart of Nessebar’s old town, the Hagia Sophia Church predates Istanbul’s famous Grand Mosque of the same…
During the silver boom of the late 1800s and early 1900s, the town of Silver Islet sprung up on the…