An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

Designed by Gustave Eiffel before his famed tower.

Just like the real 36th president of the United States, animatronic LBJ amuses visitors with jokes and stories.

After 97 years of constant vigilance from the dome of the Texas State Capitol, the original Goddess of Liberty retired to a life of climate-controlled leisure.

One incredible room in the Santa Barbara Courthouse is covered in wall-to-wall canvas murals.

Corn-inthian columns with a uniquely American take on neoclassical architecture.

The 5.5-mile ring of steel posts around the Capitol Building is one of the largest (and most uniform) of its kind in the world.

The little-known, 300-year history of the area includes former lives as a bustling tobacco port, parking lot, and industrial dump.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

Architecture lovers won’t stop touching the National Gallery's 19.5 degree marble prow.

Members of Congress have traveled between the buildings on Capitol Hill for a century hidden from tourists, press, and storm clouds.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.

Experience a charming 1930s version of "infotainment."

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

One of the tallest bell towers in Italy plays a particular melody at just two times each day.

The curious underground history of keeping Paris clean.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

A museum dedicated to secret surveillance.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.