Displayed in its current location since 1989, this 7,000-pound bronze sculpture has become a famous symbol of American capitalism.
Architect George B. Post designed the neo-Classic building, whose front features a glass window wall measuring 50 feet high and 96 feet wide.
This is New York City's oldest park, a designation it received in 1733. According to legend, over a century earlier, in 1626, Native Americans sold the island of Manhattan to the Dutch at this site.
Built in the late 1860s, these two structures, designed by William Boyington, were among the few buildings to survive the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.
Smith Tower, Seattle's first skyscraper, was the brainchild of gun and typewriter manufacturing heir Burns Smith, who planned to build the tallest building outside of New York.
The trade center's twin 110-story towers, the planet's tallest buildings when they officially opened in 1973, were destroyed in the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks against the U.S.
The Pioneer Building, completed in 1892, was the prestige office building during the Klondike Gold Rush, housing 48 different mining firms in 1897.
This Art Deco skyscraper, designed by Holabird & Root and completed in 1930, was the tallest building in Chicago until the Daley Center was built in 1965.
Rosa Parks was born a hundred years ago, on Feb. 4, 1913. In 2008, David Remnick wrote about her funeral, held in Detroit, at Greater Grace Temple Church. Here's a look: Leia mais.
