This National Historic Landmark, Fallingwater, is a very special house that is built over a waterfall.Can you believe it?                 Fallingwater, which doesn’t appear to stand on solid ground was designed by Americas most famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright. This amazing piece of art was built between 1936 [...]

  President Obama is invited to speak at the August 2011 dedication of D.C.’s first nonpresidential memorial, which occupies several acres of the Tidal Basin. Visitors approach the site through a narrow channel of boulders called the Mountain of Despair, which opens to a larger plaza, meant to suggest the difficult challenge of civil rights. [...]

  Thanks to a series of modernist art studios on stilts, this sleepy, secluded fishing community, just of the northeast coast of Newfoundland is suddenly becoming a cultural destination. The studios were converted from rugged saltbox houses and churches, overlook the Atlantic and welcome artists and writers as part of an international residency program – [...]

  Everyone knows that the Swiss famously love their cheese and chocolate – But they also love making old things new again. Enter Zurich’s Im Viadukt, a former 1894 railroad embankment built of stone mason arches that’s been converted into a series of shops, galleries, and boutiques capped by a fantastic food market. The urban [...]

  Hamlet, Macbeth, Puck, and Juliet have a mod new $185 million crib in Stratford-on-Avon, where the Royal Shakespeare Company’s round theater opened in April 2011—nicely timed to its 50th-anniversary season.                                     The gem is the 1,040-seat, thrust-stage [...]

  Your first instinct may be to roll your eyes at another opening of a zipline course, as they have become so ubiquitous. But just about an hour outside San Juan, Puerto Rico has opened a new nature park that injects thrills into the eco-adventure genre. Costa Ricans designed the cloud forest park and admits [...]

  There’s always more to dig up in the Eternal City. Excavations in Piazza Venezia (a modern traffic hub) revealed a few second-century villas decorated with intricate mosaics, fountains, and frescoes in 2007.                                   The ancient ruins opened to [...]

  The latest art buzz out of Florida isn’t from Miami. In January 2011, 96 works by surrealist Salvador Dalí found a new home in this appropriately extraterrestrial-like building with a “melting geodesic” dome. The building has bright galleries, a concrete helix staircase, and a coquina grotto draped with bromeliads—almost enough eye candy to distract [...]