Architecture

A well-worn marker in a forgotten alleyway is all that remains of what had been one of Manhattan's most beautiful buildings.

This Gothic church was wheeled in its entirety to a new location a half a mile away.

Installed at a chaotic intersection, this gave London traffic cops a place to hang their heavy woolen coats.

The front yard of an Upper East Side town house hides the last fragment of one of New York's most famous theatres.

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

300-year-old villagers houses and traditional churches preserve a nearly lost piece of Russian history.

This Czar-funded, onion-domed, lavishly muraled Orthodox Church played a starring role in "The Deer Hunter."

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

A completely round house designed for the Atomic Age.

An architect transformed this abandoned cement factory into his castle-like workshop.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

The 10-foot-wide Long Beach home was built on a dare.

The church's remarkable frescoes incorporate Finnish artist Hugh Simberg's trademark themes of death and the supernatural.

An eccentric 18th century naval officer built a ship's quarterdeck on his roof, the inspiration for Mary Poppins's "Admiral Boom."

There’s a special club house at the top for the bell ringers.

The "stairway to heaven" lookout tower was built to resist weather, arson, and the laws of physics.

One of the last Jazz Age "Wonder Theaters" in New York City.