The Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, formerly known as Custer Battlefield National Monument, spans 765 acres outside of Crow Agency, Montana. The national monument includes the site of the Battle of Little Bighorn, fought between the Seventh Regiment of the United States Cavalry and Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho warriors on June 25 and 26, 1876. It also includes Custer National Cemetery and the Reno-Benteen Battlefield. ...more

At the core of this peculiar steel-frame structure is the restaurant that was located until 1980 on the first level of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, 562 feet above the ground. Because the structure’s weight was causing the tower to sag, it was dismantled and sold to New Orleans investors. The 11,000 pieces were shipped to New Orleans and reassembled as a new restaurant. The polygonal...more

Niagara Falls is a group of three distinct waterfalls—Horseshoe Falls, the American Falls, and the Bridal Veil Falls—on the border between the United States and Canada. The waterfalls, often described as a natural wonder, have been a major tourist attraction since the early nineteenth century. Although the U.S. government declared the area a work of “conservation” when it ... more

The Round Church is a unique extant product of a related set of experiments in meetinghouse construction in New Hampshire and Vermont. The sixteen-sided, two-story frame building, fifty feet in diameter, rises through a hipped roof to a two-stage octagonal belfry, terminating in a bellcast cap and weathervane. Detailing is limited to a plain frieze beneath the eaves of the main body, Doric columns on the belfry, and simple entablatures on tapering Doric pilasters that surround doors on three faces. The elegantly... more