Nearly all the United States’ greatest structures—the Empire State Building, the Washington National Cathedral, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, to name just a few—owe much of their grandeur to a ...

The rocks embedded in the exterior of Chicago’s Tribune Tower famously were collected by newspaper correspondents on assignment in far flung locales. The nearly 150 stones are pieces of famous ...

Bedford, Indiana celebrated the 1976 bicentennial in a monumental way. Emanuel Leutze’s famous painting, Washington Crossing the Delaware, celebrates an almost mythical moment during the American ...