Masons

This small bronze pyramid marks the center of Belgrade, but some say it is a Masonic symbol.

This Masonic lodge was the first major private building to be constructed in Washington, D.C. after the Civil War.

An unusual but excellent display created in the 1930s as propaganda against the Freemasons.

Get past the gatekeeper's apartment and enter an elaborate hoax of a restaurant with a Masonic feel.

The beloved bard's garb is proudly displayed within a Freemason's hall.

The burial place of some of Mexico's most prominent residents is full of macabre stories and hidden masonic symbols.

The Grand Lodge of Ireland is one of the oldest in the world, full of fantastical, elaborately themed rooms.

The world’s largest Masonic temple was saved by the White Stripes.

Obscure Freemasons still live in D.C.’s largest private residence.

This Brazilian town built by Freemasons is full of colonial Masonic architecture and symbolic imagery.

This deserted Gold Rush town is home to a Masonic lodge that, strangely enough, still holds meetings.

A long-vacant Scottish Rite temple in Hollywood has been converted into an art museum filled with Masonic relics.

Every year, a Louisiana town remembers a brief Civil War truce inspired by Masonic brotherhood.

This former Masonic lodge has been transformed into part museum, part bar, all awesome.

This stately building in Alexandria, Virginia was built by Freemasons to honor one of their most famous members.

A towering cemetery monument honors a man who threatened to expose the Freemasons and paid with his life.

A reclusive Memphis neighborhood is home to decades worth of misunderstood Masonic folk art.