The Daily Planet Theater

Once called "the biggest room in the world," this Victorian-era hall is so large that it contains a smaller 1970s heptagonal theatre.

Soon after its unveiling, this giant inverted globe sparked controversy and was vandalized.

The compass on its front was a handy tool for 17th-century merchants who needed to know the direction of the wind.

A botanically themed auditorium blooms within the world’s last operating double-decker theater.

The spaceship-like theater, which is still in use, was one of the most popular exhibits at the 1964 New York World's Fair.

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

A UFO-shaped event building originally intended to be a science museum showcasing the future.

This late-brutalist masterpiece everyone forgot about was originally created to get the proletariat jazzed about the arts.