Universities

These beautiful objects represent beautiful ideas.

An important landmark in the history of algebraic logic.

An early Portuguese serial killer's head is alarmingly well preserved in a jar at the University of Lisbon.

Centuries before the modern seismograph, Armenian monks measured quakes with this tilting pillar.

Sections of the iconic limestone columns have been left uncleaned as a reminder of the city's polluted past.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

The school tested mustard gas for the U.S. Army during World War I.

A wondrous old library overlooking the nation's capital.

A monument to a survivor of harsh pioneer life, frostbite, and primitive surgery.

The Laureates here get something even more coveted than a Nobel Prize: free parking for life.

Graffiti covers the walls of a room where university students through the centuries have waited nervously to defend their theses.

The “American Gothic" artist's largest works hang in an Iowa State University library.

A single handprint, which, according to Ohio State University legend, cannot be scrubbed off.

A rusted metal giant pays tribute to Birmingham’s industrial past.

A college in rural Kansas founded to prepare the country for an impending World War III.