A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

An unusual art exhibition in a suburban yard is designed to awaken the souls of those flowing by.

A beacon atop a downtown building provides Bostonians with weather forecasts and baseball news.

This abandoned nuclear cooling tower casts a shadow over a bucolic town.

This ancient market is often referred to as the oldest shopping mall in the world.

This small, ancient Roman temple was once a church dedicated to the patron saint of penitents.

The remains of this 2nd-century Roman temple are incorporated into a modern building.

The island home of an unlucky whaling captain whose story inspired a great American novel.

This sculpture combines the literary Alice with her real-life inspiration.

Heralded as the world's first theater, these ruins are often overlooked as they reside in the shadows of the Acropolis.

The original place where water met land in the City by the Bay is outlined in brass.

The Lowcountry color with the power to stop evil from entering a home.

A serene plaza that commemorates one of the Granite State's most iconic figures.

The ritual has been performed uninterrupted for nearly 700 years.

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

An early-19th-century hotel with a past that is steeped in the Civil War.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

What appears to be a wizard's lair in Milwaukee actually houses a massive water pipe.

Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.

This city square dates back to the Scottish Enlightenment and was home to some of Scotland's brightest minds.

The spot where three Protestant clergymen were burned at the stake during the reign of "Bloody Mary."