Buildings

Built by Portuguese colonizers, the palace is now the seat of power for the independent nation.

This historic castle was already in ruins by the 13th century.

This bizarre residential building is the masterpiece of Von Jour Caux, the “Gaudí of Japan.”

After 97 years of constant vigilance from the dome of the Texas State Capitol, the original Goddess of Liberty retired to a life of climate-controlled leisure.

In 1911 this intersection was called "the heaviest corner in the South," an outlandish claim that only grew wilder over the years.

This eclectic homestead is home to a miniature windmill and Connecticut's last tollbooth.

A former customs station on the border of Germany and the Netherlands.

This historic building is now home to the Public Access Corporation for the District of Columbia.

This striking building appears to defy gravity, a tower balancing atop a much smaller cube.

One of London's oldest houses contains a mixture of both old and modern features.

An ornate doorway leads to the former site of one of the city's oldest society of merchants.

The Wright Tavern is possibly the most important building in Concord Massachusetts to the American Revolution.

The main residence of the Erskine family and the hereditary keeper of the nearby royal Stirling Castle.

This 20-story artwork on a public housing block is the tallest mural in the Southern Hemisphere and tells the story of a community.

This grand building inspired by classic Islamic architecture is home to a seat of provincial government.

This general store near Boston was once owned by Henry Ford, who had it relocated to a different town using a team of oxen.