Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
One of the world's largest libraries devoted entirely to rare books and manuscripts and Yale's principal repository for literary archives, early manuscripts, and rare books.
Terracotta Army
Workers digging a well outside the city of Xi'an, China, in 1974 struck upon one of the greatest archaeological discoveries in the world: a life-size clay soldier poised for battle. The diggers notified Chinese authorities, who dispatched government archaeologists to the site. They found not one, but thousands of clay soldiers, each with unique facial expressions and positioned according to rank.
Porer lighthouse
Porer lighthouse was built in 1833 on the islet of the same name, southwest of Istria's southernmost cape.
Admont Abbey
Admont Abbey contains the largest monastic library in the world and a long-established scientific collection, and is known for its Baroque architecture and collections of art and manuscripts.
Sümela Monastery
The Sümela Monastery stands at the foot of a steep cliff facing the Altındere valley in Turkey. Legend has it that two priests undertook the founding of the monastery on the site after having discovered a miraculous icon of the Virgin Mary in a cave on the mountain.
Maison de Verre
No house in France better reflects the magical promise of 20th-century architecture than the Maison de Verre. Tucked behind the solemn porte-cochere of a traditional French residence on Rue Saint-Guillaume, a quiet street in a wealthy Left Bank neighborhood, the 1932 house designed by Pierre Chareau challenges our assumptions about the nature of Modernism. For architects it represents the road not taken: a lyrical machine whose theatricality is the antithesis of the dry functionalist aesthetic that reigned through much of the 20th century.
Bank of Georgia headquarters
Bank of Georgia headquarters is a building in Tbilisi, Georgia. In 2007 the building was conferred National Monument status under the National Monuments Acts. The building and its interior was completely renovated and a new main entrance an underground lobby were constructed from 2010 to 2011.
Lockheed Burbank Aircraft Plant
During World War II the Army Corps of Engineers needed to hide the Lockheed Burbank Aircraft Plant to protect it from being a target for a Japanese air attack. They covered it with camouflage netting and to make it look like a rural housing subdivision from the air.
Clarence Schmidt
Clarence Schmidt's was an outsider artist and a pioneer of monumental environmental sculpture. His ongoing life’s work, the “Miracle on the Mountain,” was constructed of found objects and recycled materials between 1940-1972.
Palazzo Dario
Palazzo Dario is a Venetian palace on the Grand Canal of Venice at the mouth of the Rio delle Torreselle in the Dorsoduro section of Venice and located on the Campiello Barbaro. The palazzo was built in the floral Venetian Gothic style and was refaced with Renaissance features. The palace's formal address is "Dorsoduro 352". Palazzo Dario is often described as one of Venice's most exotic palaces and typically compared to Ca d'Oro. It resides on an enchanting little square, the Campiello Barbaro, named in honor of the patrician Barbaro family members who lived there. The square is shaded by trees and flanked by Palazzo Dario itself. The palazzo's eccentric beauty was of special interest to John Ruskin who described its marble-encrusted oculi in great detail.