This ranch house in Jackson's Elraine neighborhood was home to the civil rights icons and the site of a shocking assassination.

Colloquially known as "the lynching memorial," this is the United States' first memorial to the victims of racial terror at home.

The bad-ass ride of a soul legend, housed in one of the world's few soul museums.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

The 10th-tallest pyramid in the world, this former sports arena is now home to a massive Bass Pro Shops store.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

City law dictates that this mountaintop cathedral containing the heart of a saint is to remain the tallest building in town.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

The first modernist church in Europe.

Apartment complexes built into huge repurposed natural gas tanks.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

A Surreal flight of architectural fancy in Vietnam's Central Highlands.

Once home to an aristocratic family and a workers' organization, this intricately tiled building now houses a chain restaurant.

This incredible college library is a visual masterpiece of mosaic art. It also looks kind of like a giant boombox.

Many people don't realize there’s a lot going on in—and below—the world’s tallest triumphal arch.

The only castle in North America to ever house European sovereigns.

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

These massive mitts are made of 30 tons of devotional bronze.

This nearly abandoned town was once a thriving mining community until a series of fires.

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.

This oversized flute-playing Ancestral Puebloan deity is also a landmark of Southwestern kitsch.

This historic national park is covered in the stunning ruins of red rock pueblos.