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35.1396, -90.0528
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Nashville, Tennessee
Concrete Parthenon
This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.
36.1497, -86.8132
Nashville, Tennessee
Hermitage Hotel Men's Bathroom
This award-winning men's bathroom was just too beautiful to not allow women to see.
36.1637, -86.7823
Vienna, Austria
Römermuseum
This museum is dedicated to the little known ancient Roman history of Vienna.
48.2107, 16.3727
Vienna, Austria
Boltzmann's Grave
Physicist’s epitaph provides final confirmation to a career of turmoil.
48.1517, 16.4388
Vienna, Austria
Vienna Grand Ferris Wheel
Vienna's giant wonder wheel had a starring role in one of the greatest noir movies of all time.
48.2177, 16.3993
Vienna, Austria
Ungarisches Haus (Hungarian House)
The townhouse where the "Blood Countess" Elizabeth Báthory started her murderous career.
48.2058, 16.3680
Berlin, Maryland
Assateague Island
The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.
38.2275, -75.1458
Arlington, Virginia
Ronald Reagan National Airport's Historic Terminal A
The romance of early commercial flight still fills this Art Deco destination.
38.8492, -77.0415
Chantilly, Virginia
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.
38.9115, -77.4442
Arlington, Virginia
Abingdon Plantation Ruins
The remains of a historic plantation nestled in between a parking lot and the rental car return at Reagan National Airport.
38.8514, -77.0444
Budapest, Hungary
Terror Háza
Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.
47.5068, 19.0653
New York, New York
41 Cooper Square
This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.
40.7287, -73.9902
New York, New York
New Yorker Hotel
The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.
40.7527, -73.9935
New York, New York
'Life Underground' Sculptures
An artist's cute bronze subway sculptures belie his violent artistic past.
40.7398, -74.0025
New York, New York
Grand Central Terminal Whispering Gallery
Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.
40.7527, -73.9772
New York, New York
The High Line
Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.
40.7392, -74.0083
New York, New York
Old City Hall Station
The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?
40.7126, -74.0068
Washington, D.C.
Georgetown Waterfront
The little-known, 300-year history of the area includes former lives as a bustling tobacco port, parking lot, and industrial dump.
38.9029, -77.0657
Washington, D.C.
Maine Avenue Fish Market
The oldest continuously operating fish market in the United States.
38.8810, -77.0283
Washington, D.C.
Rayburn House Office Building
One critic described it as "middle Mussolini, early Ramses, and late Neiman-Marcus." Another called it an architectural "natural disaster."
38.8869, -77.0105
Washington, D.C.
Chinatown Barnes Dance
The unique traffic pattern named for an influential urban planner is also known as the Pedestrian Scramble.
38.8997, -77.0221
Washington, D.C.
Jean Jules Jusserand Memorial
An obscure federal monument honors the French diplomat who served as Ambassador to the U.S. during WWI.
38.9382, -77.0515
Washington, D.C.
Watergate Gas Station
This seemingly out-of-place gas station by the Watergate hotel was once described as the most expensive gas station in the world.
38.9004, -77.0567
Washington, D.C.
Riggs Bank
The bank that helped fund the Mexican-American War and the purchase of Alaska met its downfall after helping Augusto Pinochet launder money.
38.8991, -77.0340
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