Feb. 20, 2016: Churches of Torcello
Torcello, the most distant of Venice's islands and once a rival of Venice, has almost no residents, but two splendid ancient churches.
Torcello, the most distant of Venice's islands and once a rival of Venice, has almost no residents, but two splendid ancient churches.
Nashville's Ryman Auditorium, built as a church in 1894, became a shrine for country music fans as home to the Grand Ole Opry from 1943 to 1974.
Havana, off-limits to most Americans for half a century, is a city in the midst of big changes, whose ultimate direction is not yet all that clear.
Kingtikitaki shows us the largest remaining Byzantine cistern in Istanbul
Scheduled to open in 2018, Istanbul's new airport will feature the world's largest single terminal building, able to handle 90 million passengers a year.
Carved in precise detail, these two 'skinned men' hold up a canopy over the anatomy teacher's chair in Bologna's University medical school.
The Lincoln Memorial is featured as we approach the US holiday of "President's Day".
Bologna's San Petronio Basilica is one of the world's largest churches, unfinished after more than six centuries, but magnificent nonetheless.
While touring New York City, Ottoman came upon this iconic skyscraper.
Tokyo is dreaming of a mile-high tower with apartments for 55,000 people, to be built on a series of islands that are part of a flood-control system.
Once the Presidential Palace (and scene of an attempted coup d'etat) this impressive building is now a museum of Cuba's revolutions. In front, a piece of the 17th-century city wall.
Once a simple manor house, and then a fortified castle, and in its later days a source of stone for other buildings, Edlingham today is a preserved reminder of its past.
Belgrade is an up and coming destination -- an interesting blend of old and new, and one of the largest cities in the Balkins.
Today's we visit the historic Notre-Dame Basilica in Montreal, Quebec
Santiago de Cuba's Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption is a well-polished gem with a long history of disaster and plunder behind it.