These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.

Inside this metro station is a section of the city's former medieval fortification.

A public urinal so pretty, it was declared a national monument.

A mocking tribute to the past and modern leadership of Prague.

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

The famous winding walk at Chartres is surrounded in mystery and myth.

This fort down the Potomac from Washington, D.C. was once the only defensive fort protecting the capital.

Members of Congress have traveled between the buildings on Capitol Hill for a century hidden from tourists, press, and storm clouds.

Eclectic architecture in the woods of New York.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.