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Blue House
The Blue House’s blue façade and deep balconies stand out along Stone Nullah Lane, but its significance is also in its continued residential life. The pre-war shophouse cluster shows how conservation can preserve tenants and community use alongside brickwork, stairways, and street-facing shops.
Blue Mosque
The Blue Mosque’s six minarets and cascading domes shape the Sultanahmet skyline, while its interior is known for İznik tilework. Built under Ahmed I, it faces Hagia Sophia across a square layered with Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman history.
Bluewaters Island
Bluewaters Island is a coastal development beside Dubai Marina, with Ain Dubai as its most visible landmark. Its promenades, buildings, and public spaces extend Dubai’s newer waterfront districts into the Gulf-facing coastline.
Boat Quay
Boat Quay follows a bend in the Singapore River where conserved shophouses once served the port’s trading economy. The narrow historic district now mixes commercial life with a waterfront promenade, keeping the old relationship between buildings and river visible.
Bocca della Verità
The Bocca della Verità is a large marble mask in the portico of Santa Maria in Cosmedin. Its medieval reputation as a detector of lies is famous, but its original Roman function is uncertain and probably practical.
Bode Museum
Bode Museum rises at Museum Island’s northern tip like a palace set directly on the river. Its original ambition was to display painting and sculpture together in historically suggestive rooms, a curatorial idea that still shapes the way visitors encounter its collections.
Bogatell Beach
Bogatell Beach is one of the beaches created through Barcelona’s Olympic-era effort to reconnect the city with the sea. Its broad sandy edge belongs to a larger coastal redesign that moved rail lines underground, recovered former industrial land, and joined the waterfront to parks and neighborhoods.
Boggy Creek Airboat Adventures
Boggy Creek Airboat Adventures takes visitors across marsh and shallow wetlands near Lake Tohopekaliga, at the headwaters of the Everglades system. The low, fast airboat makes the landscape’s water, grasses and wildlife visible from a distinctly Florida perspective.
Bok Tower Gardens
Bok Tower Gardens combines a woodland garden with a 205-foot carillon tower on Florida’s Lake Wales Ridge. Edward Bok created the sanctuary as a public gift, pairing landscape design by the Olmsted firm with a tower whose bells animate the gardens with sound.
Bongeunsa Temple
Bongeunsa Temple holds an older Buddhist landscape beside Gangnam’s contemporary skyline. Its wooded grounds, halls, and large Buddha create a quiet change of scale, while the temple’s documented history reaches back to the Silla period.
BookXcess RexKL
BookXcess RexKL places a maze-like bookshop inside the former Rex Cinema, now reimagined as a creative community hub. The building’s layers of reuse connect Kuala Lumpur’s moviegoing past with current cultural activity.
Bopiliao Historic Block
Bopiliao Historic Block preserves a street pattern and building fronts that escaped some later redevelopment. Its brick walls and covered arcades make the district’s layered history visible, while its present use turns preservation into an active part of neighborhood life.
Border Gate (Portas do Cerco)
Border Gate, or Portas do Cerco, marks Macao’s northern land boundary with mainland China. The modern checkpoint and surrounding infrastructure frame a crossing that has long shaped movement, trade, and the relationship between Macao and its neighboring city.
Borghese Gallery
Cardinal Scipione Borghese built this villa to display art, not simply to live in it. Today the Galleria Borghese preserves that close relationship between room and masterpiece, with sculpture and painting arranged through a richly decorated early-seventeenth-century residence.
Borough Market
Borough Market’s present lanes sit beside a railway viaduct that helped turn it into a major wholesale hub. A market near London Bridge has roots reaching back about a thousand years; its modern identity reflects changing transport, food supply, and a later shift toward retail trading.
Bosco Verticale
Bosco Verticale’s balconies are planted as living outdoor layers, so the towers change with the seasons rather than presenting a fixed glass façade. The residential project was designed by Boeri Studio and inaugurated in 2014; the buildings are private homes, viewed from public space around them.
Bosphorus Bridge
The Bosphorus Bridge spans the water between Europe and Asia, making the connection between continents visible as a piece of infrastructure. Opened in 1973, it became Istanbul’s first bridge across the strait and changed how people and traffic could move between the shores.
Bradbury Building
The Bradbury Building’s restrained street façade opens into a dramatic five-storey atrium of brick, iron, marble and daylight. Built in 1893, the office building makes its interior circulation the main event, drawing visitors’ eyes up through stairways and open balconies.
Brandenburg Gate
Brandenburg Gate began as a neoclassical city gate and became one of Berlin’s most charged political symbols. Its Quadriga, passages, and position at the end of Unter den Linden connect eighteenth-century urban planning with later moments of conflict and unity.
Brera district
Brera’s narrow streets gather art institutions, workshops, and cafés in a district whose identity grew around the Academy of Fine Arts. The neighborhood’s quieter lanes offer a different rhythm from central Milan’s major avenues, while Palazzo Brera anchors its artistic history.
Brick Lane
Brick Lane carries successive chapters of East End migration in its buildings, businesses, and street life. Flemish brickmakers, Huguenot silk weavers, Jewish communities, and Bengali settlers each helped shape this busy thoroughfare.
British Museum
The British Museum’s neoclassical entrance frames an institution founded in the age of Enlightenment. Its collection began with Hans Sloane’s bequest and grew through many routes, including excavation, donation, purchase, and imperial-era acquisition—histories the museum now invites visitors to exam
Broadway Theatre District
The Broadway Theatre District concentrates historic playhouses around Times Square, where marquees announce live performance amid a dense transit and commercial hub. The district moved north with Manhattan’s growth and settled here as transportation made audiences easier to gather.
Bronx Zoo
The Bronx Zoo combines a large urban park landscape with animal habitats and conservation work. Its wooded grounds create a surprising sense of distance from city streets, while exhibits connect visitors with wildlife and the ecosystems that need protection.