The ruling elite have always conveyed their authority through the commissioning of monumental buildings. Explore the greatest structures that represent power — from the pyramids built to honor Egypt’s great pharaohs to the prisons that housed those condemned under British colonial rule, discover architecture that has inevitably cast a long shadow over our history.

Explore sacred buildings where people have gathered for millennia to commune with their divine. These cathedrals, churches, temples, shrines, pagodas, monast…