Neil Aldridge / Urban Red fox (Vulpes vulpes) searching for food near bins in a courtyard at night, West London, United Kingdom, May 2014. Finalist in the Urban category of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Awar...

Eladio Fernandez / An interior courtyard of La Citadelle, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Haiti. August 2016.

Gavin Hellier / Panning track shot across the courtyard of the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, December 2017. Hellier

Loic Poidevin / Entrance to Haras Du Pin, France's oldest national stud, Le Pin-au-Haras, Orne, Lower Normandy, France, November.

Ernie Janes / Drying crop of millet in courtyard of house, Ghandruk, Modi Khola Valley, Himalayas, Nepal. November 2014.

Kirkendall-Spring / Courtyard in Punakha Dzong, built on the confluence of the Mo Chhu and Pho Chhu River. Bhutan, October 2014.

Bernard Castelein / Gonyingcham, a dance performed in reference to the heavenly angels mentioned in Tantrayana Buddhism. These angels represent the beautiful girls from different villages of the Mon region. Torgya festiv...

Toby Roxburgh / Courtyard fountain, Bahia Place, Marrakech, Morocco, March 2010.

Fabio Liverani / Person looking up in the Palombaro, a network of underground structures and courtyards, under the church of Purgatorio Vecchio, used to collect water until the 1930s, Matera, Basilicata Region, Southe...

Fabio Liverani / Person in the Palombaro, a network of underground structures and courtyards, under the church of Purgatorio Vecchio, used to collect water until the 1930s, Matera, Basilicata Region, Southern Italy, J...

Fabio Liverani / Person looking up in the Palombaro, a network of underground structures and courtyards, under the church of Purgatorio Vecchio, used to collect water until the 1930s, Matera, Basilicata Region, Southe...

Juan Manuel Borrero / The ornate courtyard of Alí ibn Yusuf Mosque in Marrakech, Morocco December 2007

Juan Manuel Borrero / Fountain in the intricate courtyard of Bahía Palace in Marrakech, Morocco December 2007

Pete Oxford / Bulldozers removing old buildings in Dashanlan Street which forms part of the 'Hutongs' or networks of alleys and traditional courtyards, most of which have been destroyed to make way for a modern Bei...

Daniel Gomez / The Temple of the Inscriptions. Tomb of Pakal. Palenque archaeological site,

Daniel Gomez / The Palace + courtyards at Palenque archaeological site, Mexico.

Robert Thompson / Inside view of Holy Monastery of Varlaam, Thessalie region, Central Greece. May, 2022.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Solar cooker in courtyard of Tranduk Monastery, one of earliest Buddhist monasteries in Tibet from 7th century. Yarlung Valley, Tibet, China.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Buddhist monks in Dialectics Courtyard, where monks debate and discuss religious topics, in Sera Monastery, founded in 1419. Tibet, China.

Enrique Lopez-Tapia / Courtyard of Rongbuk Monastery (at 4,900m), highest Tibetan monastery in world. Tibet, China.

Bruno D'Amicis / Fig (Ficus sp) trees with roots sprawling over walls of Fasiladas' Bath Complex, women entering through doorway. Gondar, Ethiopia. 2018. Editorial use only.