America's only city hall with minarets took architectural cues from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.

The tallest residential building in Africa is an unsettling Brutalist monolith.

The largest historic preservation organization in the United States.

This library and museum is dedicated to the life and literature of the Indianapolis native author.

A 56-foot tall statue of the god of fire looks out over Birmingham, Alabama.

An Iron Age fort on the edge of a seaside cliff offers a glimpse into an ancient, mystical world.

While only two of the ancient buildings at this site are actually churches this was one of the earliest Irish pilgrimage sites ever.

Mortarless walls that stretch for miles are a lovely solution for creating grazing land in the harsh terrain of the Aran Islands.

A hugely vast Irish landscape of barren rock that stretches for miles.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

The largest body of water in Massachusetts annihilated four small towns just to slake Boston's thirst.

Known as one of the most climbed mountains in the world, this barren peak is permanently bald thanks to an anti-wolf fire.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

The most confusing clock in New York.

In its day this historic fort held 100 cannons pointed in almost every direction to protect New York.

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

A popular European tradition makes its way to the states on one of America's most famous bridges.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.