Places Edited by MtnLady

The Hopi-style structure was built by the man who discovered Desert Hot Springs' famous mineral water.

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

An overlooked memorial honoring the local Washington residents who died in World War I.

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

There’s a hidden military meme engraved on the World War II Memorial.

This historic building housed the surviving crew members of the Titanic, who were left destitute after the wreck.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

One of the largest Marian shrines on the West Coast stands rather unexpectedly in Silicon Valley.

This nine-story building is the oldest standing skyscraper in D.C.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

A tiny monument to the unsuccessful attempt by Thomas Jefferson to place the prime meridian in Washington.

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

A giant desert bird that once swung music fans at Coachella now has a home in a nearby traffic circle.

Giant origami crease patterns engraved in Santa Monica intersections may even be visible from space.

Legend has it that President Grant’s frequent drinking in the lobby gave rise to the term “lobbyist.”

The garage at the childhood home of Steve Jobs was a hangout for the founders of Apple, even if they never built computers there.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

This mysterious structure by the Washington Monument is a flood barrier designed to protect the White House against rising waters.

The rest of him lived another 61 years and was buried elsewhere.

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."

The Laureates here get something even more coveted than a Nobel Prize: free parking for life.

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.