There's a military base in eastern Germany that's been abandoned for 25 years. Known as the "Forbidden City," the Wünsdorf complex in Zossen — about 20 miles outside Berlin — dates back to ...

The city of Lhasa is, according to this map, an ellipse about 1½ by 3 miles in size; the city proper is surrounded by a circular road, along and across which run Irrigation canals from the near ...

The 203-by-58-centimeter map, ... According to Mr. Mignini, the painting was stolen from the Forbidden City during the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 and entered the collection of a mandarin who, ...