Some 57 years after independence, colonial buildings, relics of a bygone era, remain the headquarters of the Nigerian Railway Corporation NRCC).
The Buddhist temple in all the splendour and richness of its form, trappings, and surroundings or the stupa (a building containing relics of the Buddha) represents the presence of the Buddha.
And the museum says its Parthenon sculptures, displayed in the same building as relics of so many other civilisations, are "an important representation of ancient Athenian civilisation in the context of world history". "I want to see the Marbles of the Parthenon reunited, not because of some legal argument but because culturally and ethically it's the right thing to do," said Mr O'Hara.
Alfred and John Bool and Henry Dixon worked for the Society for Photographing Old London, recording historical buildings and relics.
Ilkley is beautiful with its old buildings and relics.
Finally, a little closer to home, many of the UK's most-striking abandoned buildings are relics of World War II.
The Public Library, designed by Carrère & Hastings and completed in 1911, is thus a transitional building, a relic of the industrial city that has taken on richer meaning as a foundation for cultural enterprise.
But in Hebron today, four Palestinian police officers were killed in an exchange of fire with the Israeli troops as the Israelis tried to take over the fortresslike hilltop municipal building, a relic built by the British after World War I. Afterward, the local Palestinian security chief, Nizam Jaabri, surrendered, along with a score of other Palestinian police officers.
Allow at least a full day for a Kremlin tour, longer if possible, due to the large number of buildings and relics.
"Alexander the Great, in fact, had no passport or birth certificate," he said, sitting in the foyer of a government building brimming with relics dating back to the warrior king.
