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

A brick-paved former section of the historic coast-to-coast highway.

Four ionic columns from the Treasury Department building ended up in a park in Nebraska.

A Swiss board game museum housed inside a picture-perfect castle.

The flower-shaped temple in Virginia aims to transcend the boundaries of the world’s religions.

A rainbow-colored house promotes LGBTQ rights across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church.

A crumbling mountain resort that looks like it was abandoned in an instant.

In California, colorful roadside signs remind us all that love transcends borders.

The 16th-century church has the only stained glass windows that survived the Scottish Reformation intact.

This historic mansion was built as a symbol of love between a husband and wife.

The ruins of this Thomas-Jefferson-designed mansion have been left to crumble since the Christmas Day they burnt down.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

Affectionately known as "Lord Bot," this historic statue has a cult social media following and rightly claims to be “the most metal inhabitant of the Wren Yard.”

Cockatoo Island is a Heritage-listed island in the middle of Sydney Harbour.

This grim museum collects artifacts and evidence of some of the most sensational antipodean crimes.

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

Australian museum dedicated to human health and lack thereof.

A collaboration of art and ornithology mourns the calls of Sydney's lost birds.

A beautiful collection of architectural ornaments rescued from demolished New York City buildings.

A small, but award-winning beach known for its literally spotless reputation.

Nature is leading a successful mutiny on this century-old freighter.

A collection of outdoor mystical statues paying homage to indigenous Australians and ecological stewardship.

Once the path of a railway tunnel, now home to thousands of glowing insects.

This dramatic sea spire is home to the world's rarest insect and is part of the lost continent of Zealandia.