The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

A building so large that it has its own weather.

A turquoise lake within a volcanic crater.

Send a postcard while vacationing with Satan.

The capital of the Cayman Islands is a center of offshore banking, but gets battered by blistering hurricanes.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

Medicinal spa created with the discharge from a geothermal energy plant.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

The 5.5-mile ring of steel posts around the Capitol Building is one of the largest (and most uniform) of its kind in the world.

Architecture lovers won’t stop touching the National Gallery's 19.5 degree marble prow.

Washington's iconic carousel has a nice piece of Civil Rights history.

Legend has it that President Grant’s frequent drinking in the lobby gave rise to the term “lobbyist.”

Perhaps the most scandalous statue of America's first president.

Light bulbs, scrap wood, and tinfoil comprise this homemade throne of the gods.

The first purpose-built art gallery in the United States is once again open as a center of craft arts.

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

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

What was meant to be a temporary exhibit is now a permanent fixture at the St. Louis Zoo filled with beautiful birds.

A gem in the small Missouri town where Winston Churchill coined the term "Iron Curtain" and effectively began the Cold War.

The Old Courthouse takes visitors on a captivating trip through St. Louis' timeline.

A small museum dedicated to the whimsical tool that turns sugar cookies into works of art.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.