Cities

A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.

An imperial fortress city that incorporated cultural elements from the entire Mughal empire, only to be abandoned the year it was finished.

A partially hidden wall graffitied by spectators of the 1976 Bicentennial, recently rediscovered.

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.

A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

America's only city hall with minarets took architectural cues from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.

Once an indicator of social class, the color blue has come to define this city on the edge of the Thar Desert.

This tiny Minnesota city tried to secede from the Union as a last-ditch effort to fix its crumbling water system.