Theaters

The excellent acoustics of this natural amphitheater made it a popular preaching spot for the founder of the Methodist Church.

This bustling Italian plaza is built on the ruins of an ancient Roman amphitheater.

This beautiful vintage movie palace has seen little change in form or function since the 1920s.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

This crumbling Art Deco movie palace in Mexico City has been abandoned for two decades.

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

An annual extravaganza of Broadway theater memorabilia.

With 8,000 pipes this giant instrument is the most versatile theatre pipe organ ever built.

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

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

The studio of Catalonia's most famous theatrical designer remains exactly as he left it.

You could be standing at the site of one of D.C.'s most fatal tragedies and not even know it.

The 28-foot granite map plots the locations of 40 theaters in New York City.

Lyon, France is home to two remarkably preserved Roman theaters, one dating back to 15 BCE.

Would you like a sleeper hold with that?

An abandoned outdoor movie theater in the Sinai desert.