Dallas, Texas
Texas Centennial Art Deco Buildings
A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.
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Dallas, Texas
A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.
Dallas, Texas
A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.
Dallas, Texas
This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.
Fort Worth, Texas
Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.
Fort Worth, Texas
The world's second-longest burning light bulb.
Waco, Texas
Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.
Waco, Texas
Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.
Fort Worth, Texas
The man who wasn't there.
Fort Worth, Texas
A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.
Austin, Texas
A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.
Chicago, Illinois
The faint remains of a Polish news empire still linger.
Chicago, Illinois
The original Garfield station is the oldest station facility on the "L", with the station house dating from 1892.
Chicago, Illinois
Built to house a chapter of the Knights Templar, this grandiose building is a relic of Freemasonry in Chicago a century ago.
Chicago, Illinois
A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.
Chicago, Illinois
This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.
Chicago, Illinois
Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.
Austin, Texas
Locals dubbed it the "Owl Building" because of its bird-like appearance.
Washington, D.C.
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.
Washington, D.C.
An overlooked memorial honoring the local Washington residents who died in World War I.
Washington, D.C.
An atomic bomb-proof strongbox protects the U.S. Constitution from terrorists and thieves.
Washington, D.C.
The most decorated dog of World War I is preserved in the Smithsonian.
Paris, France
This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.
Paris, France
Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.
Paris, France
This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.