The National Mall

The Mall is located in the area encompassed by Constitution and Pennsylvania Avenues, NW on the north, First Street on the east, Independence and Maryland Avenues on the south, and 14th Street on the west. The Mall is significant as ...

US Department of the Interior

The U.S. Department of the Interior building covers 5-acres on a 2-block site bounded by 18th, 19th, C and E Streets, NW. This project of the Public Works Administration from the Great Depression Era continues to serve its original purpose ...

St. Matthew's Cathedral

St. Matthew's Cathedral is one of the most impressive houses of worship in the United States. The red brick church, designed by C. Grant La Farge in 1893, has eclectic features inspired by Italian churches. The simplicity of the exterior ...

The State Soldiers and Sailors Monument

The State Soldiers and Sailors Monument, a focal point and symbol of the city, is a remarkable sculptural group and creates a dramatic civic space. The quality of its sculpture, bronze work, and concept is unparalleled in the state. Indiana ...

Das Deutsche Haus (The Athenaeum)

Das Deutsche Haus, now called The Athenaeum, is the best preserved and most elaborate building associated with the German American community of Indianapolis. Germans constituted a major social and cultural force in the city, and the opulent Northern European Renaissance ...

The Henry Ford Museum

The Edison Institute illustrates Henry Ford's personal commitment to preserving the record of America's technological and cultural progess. The success of the Model T allowed Ford to pursue a number of avocations. Particularly interested in the nation's past, by 1920 ...

The Baltimore

The harbor inspection tug, BALTIMORE, is the oldest operating steam-powered, coal-fired tugboat in the country. The ship was built in 1906 by the Skinner Shipbuilding Company in Baltimore, Maryland. The hull is constructed of riveted iron and the deckhouse ...

Mother Seton House

The Mother Seton House, built around 1800, was the home of Elizabeth Ann Seton, the first American-born woman beatified and canonized by the Roman Catholic Church. Although not born Roman Catholic, she converted to Catholicism in 1805, shortly after the ...

Tampa Theatre

The theater rebuilt its audience with a canny mix of art-house fare sprinkled with general-interest favorites.

For Cindy Liss, it's the gasps.

"I love that gasp from first-time visitors," says Liss, who leads tours of the Tampa Theatre, the renowned and venerable ...

The Cloisters of the Ancient Spanish Monastery

One of the oldest buildings in the Western Hemisphere, the cultural and spiritual landmark takes visitors back almost 900 years.

Miami’s known for many things. But 12th-century monasteries are not one of them.

Yet amid the urban bustle of North Miami Beach ...