Articles by Lucas Adams

A graphic history of the community displaced for the vast public park in 1857.

Albert Speer designed a truly epic monstrosity that never saw the light of day.

The developers who tore down the iconic house called the public response "a bummer."

It turns out that praying on the water has some serious downsides.

Only one car salesman enlisted Frank Lloyd Wright as his designer.

This 1602 colonizing mission to New England was ridiculed for only lasting three weeks.

In the 1880s, Iowa wanted the world to know it was the king of coal.

The storied Bay Area restaurant has been reduced to a giant dog's head.

Thomas Downing, a freed slave, built one of New York City's most famous restaurants of the 19th century—which doubled as a stop on the Underground Railroad.

The 198,000-square-mile (!) swarm was last seen in 1902.

The Bay Area used to have an epic American Indian burial site-turned-amusement park until a mall came.

The NYC building that was 5-feet wide, all made in anger.

Mosul's Christian house of worship was damaged by Americans, but destroyed by ISIS.

The giant sequoia that found its way to Broadway in New York City.

A British farmer hid his mansion behind bales of hay. Then the lawsuits came.

The modest, probably fake home of Rome's founder was an ancient tourist trap.

The golden icons survived Genghis Khan, but not, sadly, the Taliban.

The giant Nazi underground structure in Ukraine was purposely destroyed.

The short-lived Southern California health food store was run by Brian Wilson.

How the British Navy turned an island into a ship.

In the 1890s, a group of disaffected Australians tried to create a South American utopia.

The small slip of land near Brooklyn used to be a moldering cesspool—before Robert Moses stepped in.

An arson at a New Orleans gay bar is one of the worst LGBT mass murders in American history.

This important castle wasn't pushed into the sea by an invading army—it was the weather.