Musicians in medieval costume play a tune each hour from top of the Council House, Council Square (piata Sfatului), Brasov, Transylvania, Romania

Laoma Palace Theatre at Xiaogongyuan (Little Park) in Shantou City, Guangdong Province, China

Village where people from both Khmu and Hmong minority ethnics groups live, in mountain massif near Nong Khiaw, Luang Prabang Province, Laos

House under construction, village of Um-Sayhoun where most Bedouins working at Petra now live, Um-Sayhoun, Jordan, Middle East

Historical performers in costume in re-created colonial fort, Jamestown, Virginia, United States of America

Historical performers in costume in re-created colonial fort, Jamestown, Virginia, United States of America

Historical performers in costume in re-created colonial fort, Jamestown, Virginia, United States of America

Historical performers in costume in re-created colonial fort, Jamestown, Virginia, United States of America

Couple under canopy of Southern Live Oaks at Oak Alley plantation antebellum mansion house by Mississippi at Vacherie, USA

Oak Alley plantation antebellum mansion house and canopy of live oak trees along Mississippi River at Vacherie, Louisiana, USA

Longwood 19th Century antebellum plantation mansion house with Byzantine dome roof, live oak with moss, Natchez, Mississippi USA

Interior sample dwelling in the house of the architect Le Corbusier - architectural monument Weissenhofsiedlung Stuttgart Baden Wuerttemberg Germany

Library with fireplace, museum at the Corbusier house from 1927, Weissenhof Museum, Stuttgart, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany

Traditional Arabian sittingroom, historic adobe fortification Jaalan Bani Bu Hasan Fort or Castle, Sharqiya Region, Sultanate of Oman, Arabia, Middle East

A man feeds white doves at dawn in front of the Blue Mosque, Mazar-i-Sharif, Balkh Province. Hundreds of doves, who are fed by worshippers and tended by special workers, live around the mosque, and it is thought that the place is so holy that a grey or brown dove will turn white if it lands on the Mosque. The mosque is also known as the Shrine of Hazrat Ali (Hazrat Ali was the son-in-law of the prophet Mohammed), who is believed to be buried here. The shrine, of particular importance for Afghanistan's Shi'ite Muslims, was first built in the 12th century, destroyed by Genghis Khan, and rebuilt in 1481. The current mosque, considered by some to be one of the most beautiful in Central Asia, is a modern restoration.