Commissioned for Guatemala City, this weighty megalithic structure is set to be the largest museum commemorating Mayan culture and history in Central America. Its architectural success, however, ...
A stone monument with instructions for apocalypse survivors, lurking ominously in a field in rural Georgia. A castle comprised of stones that each weigh several tons, built with stunning ...
Are you sitting comfortably? Good... so was Giuseppe Zangara, 78 years ago today, when authorities at the Florida State Penitentiary flipped the switch on "Old Sparky" and sent the prisoner sic ...
All across America, a familiar type of landscape can be found: empty buildings, decaying storefronts and deserted streets. They're not ghost towns, but rather the remnants of a different time. ...
Stonehenge, the historic and mysterious monument on the Salisbury Plain in England, has intrigued humans for centuries. While no one is really sure what it was used for or how it was built, one ...
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free!" These words, bronzed into the foundation of the Statue of Liberty have been a symbol of hope and freedom for nearly ...
[Andrew D. Blechman is the author of Leisureville: Adventures in America's Retirement Utopias (Grove Atlantic)] Imagine what America might look like if a sizable minority of its elders secede ...
Have you ever wondered what really happened to that mall in The Blues Brothers or where Tarkovsky filmed those jarring and surrealistic scenes in Stalker? While many urban abandonments are left ...
[Image used with Permission of Photographer Ben Willmore] Much of America's little-remembered history can be found in largely unknown structures scattered across the United States, some of which ...
