主持人丹·克鲁克山克周游世界，遍访各式建筑，展示这些建筑是如何体现我们人类的意愿、天赋和信念。在每期节目中，世界各地的建筑物被戏剧性的罗列在一起，观众将发现，尽管建筑风格迥异，它们之间竟有着意想不到的联系。从俄罗斯西北边陲的基日岛的木结构教堂，到埃及西奈的圣凯瑟琳修道院，本系列是一段汇聚了众多不朽建筑、具有里程碑意义的旅程。《漫游世界建筑群》不仅能丰富观众的建筑学知识，更为观众讲述了世界建筑的动人故事。
What do the buildings we construct say about us as people? Dan Cruickshank travels across the world, celebrating different types of architecture and showing how our buildings reveal our aspirations, our ingenuity and our beliefs. In each program buildings from all over the world are dramatically juxtaposed, revealing unexpected connections between very different types of architecture. From the Kizhi Cathedral in remote north west Russia to the convent of St Catherine in Sinai, Egypt, and the themes that range from beauty, to power, paradise and pleasure, this series is a monumental journey that takes in some monumental structures, gradually building an architectural knowledge so that through the series a story of world architecture is told.