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Five Rejected Designs for the Lincoln Memorial

(via mental_floss) Can you imagine Martin Luther King Jr’s “I Have a Dream” speech taking place in front of a

Gas stations might be boring or even ugly places, but for the most part, you can’t avoid stopping by one

The stepwells (the earliest date to 600 AD) are generally storage and irrigation tanks in which sets of steps must

Today, tall buildings are nothing out of the ordinary. But before the advent of modern machinery that would do much

From mental_floss: Any city’s history of development is filled with interesting near misses. Here are eight ambitious projects that each could