The 65 metre tall Minaret of Jam, built by Sultan Ghiyat Ud-Din Muhammad ben San, in around 1190, with Kufic script and verses of the Koran on the exterior, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Ghor Province, Afghanistan, Asia

Skyscraper by the Moskva River, Moscow, RussiaOne of seven such skyscrapers built in the late 1940's and early 1950's

The Pepsi-Cola sign, built in 1940, a neon sign at Gantry Plaza State Park in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens, visible fromManhattan the East East River, New York City, United States of America, North America

The Pepsi-Cola sign, built in 1940, a neon sign at Gantry Plaza State Park in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens, visible fromManhattan the East East River, New York City, United States of America, North America

Skyscraper by the Moskva River, Moscow, RussiaOne of seven such skyscrapers built in the late 1940's and early 1950's

The 75m tall steeple and vast modernist church of Hallgrimskirkja, rising above the city, built between 1940 and 1974, Reykjavik, Iceland, Polar Regions

The 75m tall steeple and vast modernist church of Hallgrimskirkja, rising above the city, built between 1940 and 1974, Reykjavik, Iceland, Polar Regions

York Minster built between the 13th and 15th centuries, York, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Carved figure in official Maori meeting house, Whare runanga, Waitangi, North Island, New Zealand, Oceania

Ice Cathedral, built in 1940 and designed by Icelandic architect Gujon Samuelsson, Akureyri, northern Iceland, Iceland, Atlantic Ocean

Aerial picture, Tiger Moth, D-ESPS, built in 1940, green, Focke-Wulf Stieglitz, D-ENAY, built in 1940, red and white, planes, Hamm, Ruhr area, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Traditional class regatta, only for wooden boats built before 1940, Lake Starnberg, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany, Europe