Opened in 1956, the first modern indoor shopping mall in the world was inspired by the shopping arcades found in European cities.

Home to a 26-foot-tall statue of an American icon.

One of the world's premier laboratories for hydraulic engineering research takes full advantage of the water's power.

A jaw-dropping brutalist space church seems to have crash-landed in the middle of America.

This institution celebrates the happy accidents of uncommon sticktoitiveness.

A futuristic climate change study is nestled deep within this public land.

Journey through the largest remaining peat bogs in the contiguous United States to see the wilderness as it once was.

A warehouse for all of your architectural details.

A riverside park built around the ruins of a massive dam that collapsed in 1909.

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

An architecturally-focused antique shop.

A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.

20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

Buildings from the fictional planet of Tatooine still litter the Tunisian desert.

A lake formed in the basin of a massive impact crater takes the shape of an unbroken ring when viewed from above.

This artful dam holds back a crater-made reservoir that can be seen from space.

This ruined fortress was the stronghold for a persecuted medieval leader and his infamous Assassins.

The Forest Service's surprisingly sophisticated collection of wildfire prevention art features America's most beloved bear.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.