A three-story tower of books about Abraham Lincoln is one of the more unusual monuments to the president.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

A lovely aquatic park built by a one-armed Civil War veteran who made a fortune from lotuses.

A wondrous old library overlooking the nation's capital.

This grand gothic brewery has been pumping out suds for over a hundred years.

A tiny piece of the Moon is embedded in this stained glass masterpiece.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

The rogue roots are gradually consuming some of the historic marble grave markers.

Fascinating museum dedicated to the under-appreciated medical history of urology features some wince-inducing devices.

The only public swimming pool in Baltimore open to Black Americans during segregation is now a permanent memorial art exhibit.

One artist’s scheme to expand museum viewing hours into the evening led to the illumination of an entire city.

At this former Prohibition speakeasy, electric birds signaled the arrival of hooch.

One of the oldest anatomical theaters in the U.S. still in use was once the site of an infamous cadaver riot.

George Washington's dentures and Queen Victoria's dental instruments are in the nation’s official museum of the dental profession.

A model home in the Medical Examiner's Office in which grisly death scenes are staged to train forensic investigators.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."

This extraordinary art museum is like a secret world on the edge of Mexico City.

At a museum of everyday objects, it is the act of collecting that is really on display.

A scientific repository of goiters, boils and other ailments throughout Mexican history.

Diego Rivera's massive tiled fountain and failed infrastructure project.

A disquieting Aztec sculpture displays hundreds of stone skulls representing the victims of human sacrifice.

Explore the atmospheric ruins of an abandoned convent in the dense forests of Mexico's first national park.

Twelve natural mummies are displayed in the crypt of this former monastery school.