Cities

Montmartre's sole surviving windmill became an iconic landmark for 19th-century painters, artists, and bohemians.

A rebuilt Roman city that was once the largest Roman settlement in the region.

In 1810, free people of color made up more of New Orleans's population than any other Southern city.

A museum housed in a stunning Rockefeller-funded medical institute building from the 1930s.

The pillars inside this small, ornate shrine hold Bangkok's horoscope within them.

In this German city center, the streets have no names.

A downtown filled with nearly deserted historic buildings was revived as a pastel paradise.

A massive ancient Chinese city with stone walls and evidence of human sacrifices.

A plaque honors Miami's sister city in the Canary Islands, inviting one to reflect on their place in the world.

This church was transported brick by brick from the ruins of a 16th-century city into Panama City's current historic district.

This formerly-prosperous Silesian mining town was completely demolished in the late 1960s and early 1970s as an attempt to cover up a secret Soviet uranium mine.

The center of this Polish border town was so thoroughly wiped out in World War II that only the foundations remain.