One of the most picturesque cities on the Golden Ring, Pereslavl-Zalessky offers visitors a number of historic buildings to explore. Photographs by William Brumfield The ancient path northeast of ...

In the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, Our Lady of Sacramento Monastery is a symbol of faith, sacrifice, and a decades-long partnership between two unlikely friends.

In the town of the same name in the Harz region stand the impressive ruins of the former Cistercian monastery Walkenried.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Russian chemist and photographer Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky devised a complex process for vivid, detailed color photography. His vision of photography as a form ...

A look at Brooklyn, then and now. As so often happens, I was researching something else when I happened to look at this particular Sanborn insurance map of Bedford, dated 1908. There, in the middle of ...

UDABNO, Georgia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Standing near an ancient monastery perched on a rocky ridge in southeast Georgia, armed border guards keep a watchful eye over tourists visiting the site ...

The Sisters of St. Benedict of Ferdinand were founded in 1867, when four Benedictine nuns from St. Walburg Monastery in Covington, Kentucky, moved to Ferdinand. The area hosted a burgeoning community ...

Down a country road across the railroad tracks in this tiny Tehama County farm town, just past a hulking oak tree, you come to a giant white cross showing the way to a California gem where wine, ...