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Babri Masjid (بابری مسجد)
Babri Masjid (بابری مسجد), also known as the Babri Mosque or Masjid-i-Janmasthan, was a 16th-century mosque in Ayodhya, India, demolished by a Hindu mob in 1992.
Bachkovo Monastery
Bachkovo Monastery, also known as Petritsoni Monastery, is the second largest monastery of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, founded in 1083 in the Rhodope Mountains near Plovdiv.
Badminton House
Badminton House is a Grade I listed country house at Great Badminton in South Gloucestershire, England, the seat of the Dukes of Beaufort since 1682 and the namesake of the sport of badminton.
Badrinath Temple
Badrinath Temple, also called Badrinarayan Temple, is a Hindu temple dedicated to Vishnu in the Garhwal Himalayas, Uttarakhand, India, and one of the Char Dham pilgrimage sites.
Badshahi Mosque (بادشاہی مسجد)
Badshahi Mosque, or Badshahi Masjid, meaning the Imperial Mosque, is a Mughal-era congregational mosque in Lahore, Pakistan, commissioned by Emperor Aurangzeb in 1671 and completed in 1673.
Bagshot Park
Bagshot Park is a royal residence near Bagshot in Surrey, England, built in the 1870s for Queen Victoria's son Prince Arthur and now home to Prince Edward.
Baidyanath Temple (बैद्यनाथ मंदिर)
Baidyanath Temple, also known as Baba Baidyanath Dham, is a Hindu temple of Shiva in Deoghar, Jharkhand, India, counted among the twelve Jyotirlingas and the 51 Shakti Peethas.
Baiturrahman Grand Mosque
The Baiturrahman Grand Mosque (Masjid Raya Baiturrahman) is a historic mosque in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, first built in 1612 under Sultan Iskandar Muda and rebuilt by the Dutch after burning in 1873.
Balinese temple architecture
Balinese temple architecture is the tradition of building Hindu temples, called pura, on Bali, Indonesia, with split gates, odd-numbered tiered meru shrines, and courtyards graded toward greater sanctity.
Balmoral Castle
Balmoral Castle is a large granite castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, built between 1853 and 1856, and the private summer residence of the British royal family, owned personally by the monarch.
Baltimore Memorial Stadium
Baltimore Memorial Stadium was a multi-purpose stadium at 33rd Street in Baltimore, Maryland, home to the Orioles from 1954 to 1991 and the Colts, demolished in 2002.
Bamberg Cathedral
Bamberg Cathedral (Bamberger Dom) is the Catholic cathedral of Bamberg, Bavaria, rebuilt in late Romanesque and early Gothic style from about 1200 to 1237 with four towers.
Bandstand
A bandstand, or music kiosk, is a raised, roofed, open-sided outdoor stage for musical bands that became the focal point of Victorian Britain's public parks, with over 1,500 built at its peak.
Banff Springs Hotel
The Banff Springs Hotel, now the Fairmont Banff Springs, is a resort hotel in Banff National Park, Alberta, opened by the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1888.
Bank of America Tower (Manhattan)
Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park is a 55-story, 1,200-foot skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, the first LEED Platinum skyscraper in the United States.
Banke Bihari Temple (बांके बिहारी मंदिर)
Banke Bihari Temple (बांके बिहारी मंदिर) is a Hindu temple dedicated to Krishna in Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh, whose image was received by the saint Swami Haridas in the sixteenth century.
Banteay Srei
Banteay Srei, meaning Citadel of Women, is a 10th-century Hindu temple of pink sandstone northeast of Angkor in Cambodia, dedicated to Shiva and called a jewel of Khmer art.
Banz Abbey
Banz Abbey (Kloster Banz) is a former Benedictine abbey above the Main valley at Bad Staffelstein in Bavaria, rebuilt in Baroque style from 1698 and dissolved in 1803.
Baphuon
Baphuon (ប្រាសាទបាភួន) is a three-tiered 11th-century temple mountain in Angkor Thom, Cambodia, built as the state temple of King Udayadityavarman II and dedicated to Shiva.
Baptistery of Pisa
The Baptistery of Pisa (Battistero di San Giovanni Battista) is the circular baptistery of Pisa Cathedral, begun in 1152 and the largest baptistery in Italy.
Bara Imambara
Bara Imambara, also called Asafi Imambara, is a monumental Shia congregation hall in Lucknow, India, built by Nawab Asaf-ud-Daula between 1784 and 1791 as famine relief.
Barbara Rutherford Hatch House
Barbara Rutherford Hatch House, also called Cyril and Barbara Rutherford Hatch Residence, is a 1917-19 Frederick J. Sterner townhouse at 153 East 63rd Street, Manhattan; a NYC landmark since 1977, once home to Dillingham, Gypsy Rose Lee, Jasper Johns, and Spike Lee.
Barbican Estate
The Barbican Estate, also known as the Barbican Complex, is a Brutalist residential and cultural development in the City of London, built to designs by Chamberlin, Powell and Bon.
Barcelona Cathedral
Barcelona Cathedral, dedicated to Saint Eulalia, is the Gothic cathedral of Barcelona and the seat of its archdiocese, built mainly from 1298 to the mid-15th century.
Barcelona City Hall
Barcelona City Hall (Casa de la Ciutat) is the seat of the Barcelona city council on the Plaça de Sant Jaume, in the city's Gothic Quarter.
Barcelona Pavilion
The Barcelona Pavilion, the German Pavilion at the 1929 Barcelona Exposition, is a small landmark building on Montjuïc designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich.
Barn
A barn, also known as a cowhouse, is an agricultural building used to store crops, fodder, and machinery and to house livestock, varying in form by region.
Barndominium
A barndominium, colloquially a barndo, is a steel- or post-frame building finished as a home, often pairing open living space with an attached shop under one roof.
Barnsley Park (United Kingdom)
Barnsley Park, Gloucestershire: Grade I Georgian house and Grade II registered park near Cirencester, built by Brereton Bourchier from c 1700, altered by John Nash, containing a scheduled Roman villa and 49 ha field system.
Barracks
Barracks, also called barrack blocks, are buildings or groups of buildings used to house soldiers, originally temporary huts and now usually permanent structures within a garrison.