A Leaning Tower in Italy (Not Pisa) Becomes a Worry City officials in Bologna have closed a city-center square as they study what to do about the Garisenda Tower. A solution could take years.
In the Heart of the Italian Alps, the Sacri Monti Offer a Trove of Art Along a scenic route in the Piedmont and Lombardy regions, nine sanctuaries known as the Sacri Monti house a trove of Renaissance and Baroque art.
In Peru, a Fossil-Rich Desert Faces Unruly Development The Ocucaje Desert, where paleontologists recently unearthed the ancient skeleton of the world’s heaviest animal, is being overtaken by human settlement.
Egypt’s Government Is Bulldozing the City of the Dead The dead are being exhumed and the living are being evicted to make way for President Sisi’s Pharaonic fantasies.
Workers Plow Through Great Wall of China, Leaving a Hole The pair, a 38-year-old-man and 55-year-old woman, used an excavator to widen an existing gap and make a shortcut, the authorities said.