6 places catalogued in this kind of landscape.
A schist village stacked like an amphitheatre into the Serra do Açor, where slate-black houses with blue-painted doors face a single white church.
A white hill-town wrapped around two hills above the Roman ruins of Volubilis, holy to Moroccans and almost unvisited by everyone else.
The fractured remains of a 13th-century Welsh castle on a conical hill above Llangollen, open to the sky and the weather.
A silver town at 2,750 m reached through a single-lane tunnel, half ruined since the 1900s and now home to a few hundred people, Huichol pilgrims and a lot of silence.
A narrow gorge in the Gobi where a field of ice survives most of the summer in the shade of 200 m walls, with lammergeiers overhead and pikas underfoot.
A deserted Byzantine village stacked on a cliff in the hills of Chios, emptied after the 1822 massacre and never resettled, its stone houses now indistinguishable from the rock.