This striking church was built from a Frank Lloyd Wright design more than a decade after the master architect's death.

A historic hydroelectric power plant serves as the unusual backdrop for a public park.

The historic “pink house on the hill” is an architectural gem that now serves as a center for water conservation.

The first permanent memorial to a unique secret weapon of World War II.

This small, unassuming street is now a canvas for color and creativity.

Founded by members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, this one-room joint's James Beard–winning fry bread is light as a cloud.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

A student driver's nightmare.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.

A rare surviving example of a pre-WWII Japanese garden, restored after years of neglect.

An American flag was erected for every day that passed during the Iranian Hostage Crisis.

The site of America's first commercial oil well essentially disappeared after the town went bust.

This little-known Revolutionary War fort is supposedly haunted by the ghosts of its past.

This colonial mansion has been home to a staggering number of American historic figures.

Where the oil industry began.

The final resting place of two members of the infamous Doan gang, notorious outlaws and Revolutionary War Loyalists.

The famous bell was secreted away and hidden in a church in Allentown during the British occupation of Philadelphia.

A living maritime paradox still floats in the same lake where it was built and resurrected... or was it?