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The Tomb of Itmad-ud-Daula’s is in the city of Agra a short distance from the Taj Mahal. It is more commonly known as the ‘Baby Taj’ as it is thought to have been the model for the Taj Mahal, although it is also referred to as the 'jewel box'. The Tomb was built between 1622 and 1628 as the mausoleum of Mirza Ghiyas Beg, the chief treasurer under the Mughal Empero...

The Western Wall, or Kotel or “Wailing Wall”, is located in the Old City of Jerusalem, Israel, and it is the western support wall of the Temple Mount. The Wall is the most religious site in the world for the Jewish people. The name “Wailing Wall” is actually a translation of the Arabic term el-Mabka, which means “place of weeping,” and is the traditional...

Santa Cruz de Mompox (also called Mompos or simply Mompox), located in the swampy inland tropics of northern Colombia’s Bolívar Department, was founded about 1539 on the Magdalena River, the country’s principal waterway. Mompox was of great logistical and commercial importance, as substantial traffic between the port of Cartagena and the interior travelled along the river. It...