Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

She stares out across six lanes of traffic, clutching a musket and infant with determination.

Before Nixon, "watergate" meant canals.

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

The romance of early commercial flight still fills this Art Deco destination.

A tiny monument to the unsuccessful attempt by Thomas Jefferson to place the prime meridian in Washington.

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

The notorious "Hanoi Hilton" where Vietnamese colonial subjects and later American POWs, including John McCain, were imprisoned.

150 or so scrounged-up lamps, chandeliers, and lanterns light up this alley in central Athens.

This rare triple-jurisdiction drawbridge passes through Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.

Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.