Architecture

The site of the last royal wedding in Korea.

This twice-relocated "Usonian" home is among the smallest built by master architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

This Roman monument is surrounded by more recent construction, offering a stark contrast between ancient architecture and the modern urban landscape.

A unique flight of canal locks that owe their form to 19th-century cost-saving measures.

This impeccably preserved farmstead is a time capsule of a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist's life.

A distinctive building that incorporates a mythical beast into its architecture.

Once the central jail for Los Angeles, this building housed inmates like Al Capone, those arrested from the Zoot Suit and Watts Riots, and individuals imprisoned for their sexuality.

The supreme shrine of the state.

This island castle contains enough secret passageways to support a season of Scooby-Doo episodes.

One of the oldest standing structures in Montgomery County, Maryland.

A snow-white church overlooking the wonderful Tyrrhenian Sea.

The beehive-like buildings of this abandoned resort reside near the border of Mauritania and Senegal.

These structures were inspired by both Native American shelters as well as, strangely, an ice cream shop.

There are ongoing efforts to preserve this village, the best known work of Egyptian architect Hasan Fathy.

The former home of Victoria's first Lieutenant-Governor.