As Hungarian tourist Peter Tuli wandered through Jingshan Park in downtown Beijing his gaze was drawn to a remarkable sight a millennium-old Chinese ...

This ancient tree, with its tall and upright trunk, stretches its branches wide, standing out against the backdrop of the park's architecture, adorned with gray tiles and red walls. "I read the ...

This ancient tree, with its tall and upright trunk, stretches its branches wide, standing out against the backdrop of the park's architecture, adorned with gray tiles and red walls. "I read the ...

The newly renovated area is dedicated to prayer and is backed by gold-and-white tiles matching the gilded trim ... A pooja room usually has an altar, mandir or table supporting idols and pictures of ...

Online visitors can navigate the Vatican basilica’s mosaics, the cupola, the underground necropolis and Peter’s tomb. A ...

To my mind, most interesting were the guest rooms, accessed by a weighty key rather than a plastic card, shoehorned in amid medieval walls ... painted on ceramic tiles. Above the arch, under ...

From Istanbul's Blue Mosque to Paris’s Notre Dame, religious monuments have awed and amazed the masses for thousands of ...

Picture yourself in a medieval Italian church ... Many of the works of the three other painters are frescoes, still attached ...

From his upper lip a deeply etched wrinkle descends on either side of his mouth to his chin, which seems to swell and is ...

Also, don't miss the statues along the side wall (on calle Palos de la Frontera) of the palace. The chapel, which dates from 1721, is full-on baroque, with every scroll, curl and cherub of its altar ...

Tony Award-winning actor, writer and producer John Cameron Mitchell has put his own design imprint on his Bywater Creole ...