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Author: Stillman and Barbara Rogers

Text and ©photos provided by Stillman Rogers of Best Getaways, a travel blog devoted to outdoor and cultural experiences around the world, and Barbara Radcliffe Rogers of  WorldBite, a travel blog devoted to food and cultural experiences around the world.
Rue St Louis, lined with colorful buildings a few stories tall.

Historic District of Old Québec

North America’s only fortified colonial city, with an intact core, some of which dates back to the 17th century.

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People walk a path through low shrubs toward a green mountain in the background.

Gros Morne National Park

An area of natural beauty which illustrates the process of continental drift.

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Looking down a long row of houses, all with about 4 stories, all painted in pastel colors, all with decorative gables and shops on the ground floor.

Historic Centers of Stralsund and Wismar

Remarkable collections of “Brick Gothic” churches and other buildings unique to these former Hanseatic ports.

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A reconstructed sod house has straight walls and a rounded roof.

L’Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site

The first proven European settlement in North America, established 1000 years ago in Newfoundland.

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Looking up at the ceiling of the Charola at the Convent of Christ in Tomar: a central thick column or room with six (?) sides, highly decorated with sculptural and painted elements. The ceiling has ribs extending out from the central column, and is painted between the ribs.

Convent of Christ in Tomar

An architectural retrospective of Portugal and the Knights Templar in the form of a monastic center dating to the 12th-16th century.

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At Su Nuraxi di Barumini a structure made of rocks forms a low cone shape on a hill.

Su Nuraxi di Barumini

Ruins of a Bronze Age society that built unique circular defensive structures.

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Facing the altar, with some of the side walls and arched ceiling visible. Every inch is ornately decorated with religious and natural imageray, as well as architectural features like arches and such. Literally all of it is covered in gold.

Historic Town of Ouro Preto

City of Black Gold and treasury of baroque and Portuguese colonial architecture.

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The Church of St. Trophime in Arles has a Romanesque entranceway, shown in this photo. Rounded arches above a double door, pillars on each side of the door.

Arles, Roman and Romanesque Monuments

A grand Roman city and its later Romanesque additions, well-preserved in Arles city center.

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Two of the restored houses on the "main street" on St. Kilda. They're very simple stone-built single storey houses, with a peaked roof and a chimney at either end and a door in the middle of the front, one window on either side of the door. Lots of ruined low walls around the houses and one unrestored house next in the row: similar front wall but no roof.

St Kilda

An isolated island of dramatic landscapes: a nature sanctuary, with ample evidence of human fortitude in such a remote spot.

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A round, 2-3 story structure with stone walls, an ornate Arabic-inspired entrance and window frames.

Cultural Landscape of Sintra

A fine collection of fanciful Romantic-style palaces and castles.

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