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Barcelona Maritime Museum
Barcelona Maritime Museum occupies the Royal Shipyards, where galleys and other vessels were built and maintained for Mediterranean power. The broad Gothic halls are industrial spaces on a monumental scale, preserving the structure of a medieval naval arsenal while giving it a new museum role.
Barcelona Pavilion
The Barcelona Pavilion was built as Germany’s contribution to the 1929 International Exposition and dismantled soon afterward. Its 1986 reconstruction makes a temporary building permanently available for experiencing modern architecture’s use of material and space.
Barceloneta Beach
Barceloneta Beach sits against a historic fishing and working-class neighborhood whose grid was planned for people displaced by the Ciutadella fortress. The beach’s present popularity followed a much later opening of the waterfront, especially the Olympic-era cleanup and public-space projects of 199
Bar Luce
Bar Luce was designed by filmmaker Wes Anderson as a café to be used, not merely admired. Its color palette and miniature references to Milan’s Galleria Vittorio Emanuele bring a carefully composed film sensibility into a working social room.
Bar Marsella
Bar Marsella’s old bottles and worn interior speak to a long life in Barcelona’s Raval, where absinthe became part of its public identity. The city’s heritage record dates the establishment to 1820 and documents the municipality’s purchase of the building in 2013.
Barra Square
Barra Square opens toward Macao’s Inner Harbour in front of A-Ma Temple. Its Portuguese-style mosaic paving and waterfront position make it both a threshold to the temple and a reminder of the port setting that shaped the city.
Basilica Cistern
Beneath Sultanahmet’s crowded streets, the Basilica Cistern holds a forest of columns above a vast underground reservoir. Its dim water and repeated supports reveal the hidden infrastructure that helped sustain Constantinople’s palaces and public buildings.
Basilica di Sant'Eustorgio
A star crowns Sant’Eustorgio’s brick bell tower, recalling the basilica’s tradition of the Three Magi. The church holds centuries of layered construction and devotion, while its relic story should be heard as tradition rather than settled history.
Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls
Saint Paul Outside the Walls stands over the traditional burial place of the apostle beyond ancient Rome’s walls. The present basilica, rebuilt after a devastating nineteenth-century fire, follows the scale of its ancient predecessor and preserves a long tradition of pilgrimage.
Basilica of San Clemente
San Clemente lets visitors descend through three distinct levels of Rome: a twelfth-century basilica, a fourth-century church, and earlier Roman structures that include a Mithraic temple. The stacked buildings reveal how later communities reused and buried the city beneath them.
Basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano
San Giovanni in Laterano is Rome’s cathedral, with a baptismal font at the heart of its history. Its vast interior has been repeatedly rebuilt, yet the basilica’s role as the bishop of Rome’s church reaches back to the early Christian period.
Basilica of San Lorenzo Maggiore
Sixteen ancient marble columns stand before San Lorenzo Maggiore, creating a striking Roman threshold to one of Milan’s earliest churches. Their reused architectural pieces make the city’s classical past visible in a square still used as a meeting place.
Basilica of San Maurizio al Monastero Maggiore
San Maurizio’s long nave is divided by a screen, preserving the distinction once made between public worshippers and cloistered Benedictine nuns. Its richly painted walls turn that architectural boundary into a guide to the church’s former life within Milan’s major women’s monastery.
Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere
The mosaics of Santa Maria in Trastevere glow above a church founded in the early centuries of Christianity. Its medieval rebuilding and later decoration reveal a sacred place continually renewed by the neighborhood that gathers in the piazza outside.
Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore
Saint Mary Major preserves early Christian mosaics alongside later chapels, a Baroque façade, and the tallest bell tower in Rome. Its central nave gives visitors an unusually direct view of fifth-century narrative mosaics that have survived for nearly sixteen centuries.
Basilica of Sant’Ambrogio
Sant’Ambrogio’s brick courtyard prepares visitors for a church shaped by both early Christian devotion and later Romanesque rebuilding. Beneath its altar are the remains of Ambrose and martyrs Gervasius and Protasius, tying the basilica to Milan’s fourth-century religious history.
Baths of Caracalla
The Baths of Caracalla were a vast public complex, not simply a place to bathe. Their surviving brick halls once framed pools, exercise courts, libraries, and underground service passages, revealing the social and technical infrastructure of imperial Rome.
Battersea Power Station
Battersea Power Station’s four chimneys and monumental brick halls preserve the silhouette of London’s electricity age. Closed in 1983, the Grade II* listed station has been adapted as a public destination while retaining its industrial structure.
Battery Park
Battery Park, also known as The Battery, occupies Manhattan’s southern tip at the meeting of the Hudson and East Rivers. Its waterfront paths, monuments and Castle Clinton connect the city’s harbor history with today’s public park life.
Batu Caves
Batu Caves is a limestone hill and Hindu pilgrimage complex north of Kuala Lumpur, with cave shrines set into the rock. The site is sacred to devotees, especially during Thaipusam, and also reveals the region’s deep geological history.
Bauhaus Archive
The Bauhaus Archive’s distinctive roofline makes the museum building itself part of the collection’s story. Designed by Walter Gropius and adapted for Berlin, it gives a later home to a school whose ideas traveled far beyond its brief existence from 1919 to 1933.
Bebelplatz
A glass panel set into Bebelplatz reveals empty shelves beneath the square, a quiet memorial to the Nazi book burning of 10 May 1933. The underground library gives absence a physical form, asking visitors to remember the writers and ideas targeted by the regime.
Begijnhof
Pass through the Begijnhof entrance and the city noise falls away around a quiet courtyard. This medieval community was home to beguines—lay religious women, not cloistered nuns—and its wooden house, chapel, and English Church reveal centuries of changing belief.
Beitou Hot Spring Museum
A former public bathhouse in Beitou now interprets the city’s hot-spring culture. Its brick-and-wood walls, black-tile roof, and Tudor-inspired appearance stand as a reminder that heritage survives through community choices as much as through architecture.