New York, New York
William Lescaze Townhouse
New York City's first Modernist house.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
New York, New York
Gimbel's Bridge
A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.
New York, New York
The Little Church Around the Corner
This Fifth Avenue church has long been the favored worshiping place of Broadway actors and vaudeville performers.
New York, New York
The Wizard of Park Avenue
A whimsical, but often overlooked clock in Park Avenue.
New York, New York
Bellevue Hospital
The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.
New York, New York
Roosevelt Island Octagon Tower
A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.
New York, New York
Roosevelt Island AVAC System
On this island, you suck away your garbage via an elaborate pneumatic tube system.
New York, New York
Roosevelt Island Smallpox Hospital Ruins
A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.
New York, New York
Strecker Memorial Laboratory
Site of the first pathological and bacteriological research facility in the United States.
New York, New York
The American Merchant Mariner's Memorial
Twice a day one of these tragic bronze mariners drowns with the tide to remember all those the sea has taken.
New York, New York
The Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
The home of the first American-born saint is one of the only curved buildings in New York.
New York, New York
Titanic Memorial
Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.
Meriden, Connecticut
Traffic Control Tower
A human attendant once directed car traffic from this structure before automated stoplights.
Austin, Texas
Frost Bank Tower
Locals dubbed it the "Owl Building" because of its bird-like appearance.
St. Louis, Missouri
Wainwright State Office Building
One of the world's earliest skyscrapers.
Tehachapi, California
Tehachapi Loop
Where a railroad loops under or over itself to rise or drop more than 70 feet in a short distance.
Queens, New York
LaGuardia Landing Lights Park
Nine nice parcels of land along a flight path offer a quiet respite... until a plane soars overhead.
Bronx, New York
Woodlawn Cemetery
The end of the 4 Line is also the end of the line for 300,000 souls in one of NYC's most illustrious cemeteries.
Brooklyn, New York
Love Lane
Love is in the air along the small street in Brooklyn.
Wilmette, Illinois
Bahá'í Temple
The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.
Evanston, Illinois
Little Northwestern
A student designed this 3D-printed scale replica of the entire university campus.
Chicago, Illinois
'Ten Thousand Ripples'
Partially submerged Buddha heads freckle Chicago’s neighborhoods.
Plano, Illinois
The Farnsworth House
Tour the luxe "glass cage" that inspired and unnerved the architecture world upon its debut.
Joliet, Illinois
Joliet Iron and Steel Works (Joliet Iron Works Park)
What was once the second largest steel mill in the US is now a sprawling complex of modern ruins.
