Historical sites

49 photos of the impressive, UNESCO-listed Lednice castle in the south of the Czech republic

16 photos of the Auschwitz I concentration camp in southern Poland

30 photos of the Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp in Oswjecim

46 photos of the Auschwitz concentration camp near Krakow in Poland

13 photos of the Palazzo dei Normanni (Palace of the Normans), the former residence of the kings of Sicily

38 photos of the Valley of the Temples near Agrigento, one of the most significant archaeological sites of ancient Greece

39 photos of Selinunte, a large archaeological site on the southern coast of Sicily dating back to the Greek period

10 photos of the Confucius temple in Tainan, an ancient centre of Confucian studies

9 photos of the Official God of War temple, the oldest and most impressive temple in Taiwan

74 photos of the temples of Abu Simbel in southern Egypt

24 photos of the Grand Palace in Bangkok, the major tourist attraction of Bangkok

20 photos of the Kastellet, a well preserved Renessaince star fortress surrounded by a moat

23 photos of the historic core of Copenhagen

18 photos of the Kronborg castle, a renessaince fortress in Denmark

62 photos of Stralsund, a Hanseatic League city on Germany's Baltic Sea coast

23 photos of Susa, the ancient winter capital of the Persian Achaemenid empire

18 photos of Shuhstar, a city in Iran with an historical hydraulic irrigation system