An excavated and partially restored stable in the Byzantine town of Sobata, Israel.

Long considered Nabataean town largely developed under Roman rule, it is nowadays widely accepted the the majority of the city, including this building, was constructed already after reforms of Constantine.

The slender late Baroque of the Church of the Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos in the village of Naryshkino, Nizhny Novgorod Region, Russia.

In need of reconstruction, yet still beautiful, the fortress of Atskuri in Georgia.

A beautiful neo-Byzantine relief of Presentation of the Lord from the church of same dedication in Thessaloniki, Greece.

Narym is the oldest settlement in the Tomsk Region, having been founded in the XVI century as an outpost of the Russian Tsardom in these wild lands.

It received city status and its first coat of arms in the XVII century, but then its importance rapidly declined, and by the XIX century it was criticised for its wooden, "rustic" and "disorderly" buildings. Although this criticism was largely justified, it is precisely the large number of traditional wooden houses and estates that make this town, now a village, so interesting.

And Narym boasts more than just usual log houses - the house of the merchant Rodiukov is a fine example of wooden Empire style architecture.

The luxurious eclecticism of the first half of the XX century with neo-Greek touches of the Vattis brothers building in Piraeus, Greece.

Neogothic tombs in Cherdyn, Russia.