Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.

A 1,100-ton train fell through the floor in 1953. Workers got it patched up in just 72 hours.

Railroad officials in the early 1900s sought to spare travelers the sight of Roman soldiers’ private parts.

Atop this media building, two hives containing more than 30,000 bees keep the surrounding area vibrant.

A "hospital" where people went to be quarantined, die, and be buried in the yard.

A quintet of history museums make this Virginia graveyard as much a resting place for funereal history as it is for people.

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

This memorial honors thousands of enslaved Africans and their descendants who died in colonial New York.

Twenty-three trees, each paired with a basalt stone, line a street in Chelsea, continuing an urban project started by German Fluxus artist Joseph Beuys.

The one-time office of the architectural firm that ushered in the Gilded Age is now a Club Monaco.

The most confusing clock in New York.

The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.

A 19th-century politician who died after walking home in a blizzard is honored with this Manhattan statue.

Church in Manhattan holds the bloody sock of Padre Pio, among with many other unusual relics.

A 56-foot tall statue of the god of fire looks out over Birmingham, Alabama.

The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.

Illegal drag racing two stories beneath Chicago’s streets.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.

Chicago's Navy Pier on Lake Michigan was a training hub for aircraft carrier pilots during WWII.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

A journey begins with a single step, and for many, the road-trip of a lifetime started at this Chicago intersection.