Universities

Stone markers on the campus of Gallaudet University commemorate a peculiar school tradition.

This bronze statue commemorates the strange and beloved mascot of UC Irvine—the only university to be represented by a giant anteater.

Philippine art and culture are on display at this university museum.

A series of increasingly larger sundials have grown with this school.

From banquet hall to Masonic Lodge and now concert venue, Ganz Hall is a breathtaking glimpse of into the golden age of American architecture.

With its vaulted ceiling and gilded details, this University of Washington library would feel right at home inside an old palace.

Exploring crime and punishment in feudal and pre-modern Japan.

Did he come up with a theory of cosmic-ray showers while sitting in this bath?

One was an astronomer who spent his life chasing solar eclipses, the other helped make Emily Dickinson famous.

This statue of a studious young woman stands at the site of Leuven's first college to accept female students.

The Lund University's former gym houses a museum focusing on the creative process of art.

In the middle of a peaceful campus garden lies a lone grave.

Constructed from bricks salvaged from a former dormitory destroyed in a fire.

A replica of a 17th-century map of the stars stands in the courtyard of a Belgian university.

It is the only marker for one of the most famous hate crimes in American history. There are no other memorials for him in the entire state.

This plaque marks the former home of one of the first women physicians in the Netherlands.

Apparently, the whole cosmos emanates from this plain concrete tower.

Preserving the research tools, unexpected inventions, and odd collections of generations of college professors.