Built in 1894 of local sandstone, it features a tower modeled on Big Ben, and a really splashy Victorian interior. The town, then named Mauch Chunk, was the center of an anthracite coal-mining region
One of the world’s best-known artists in his time, he’s little heard of today, except in his own museum
One of Europe’s great university libraries is housed in a magnificent eclectic building
In Alexandria, Louisiana, a small museum highlights Louisiana’s key role in World War II training
A visit to the small historic Montana town of Darby, in Montana’s Bitterroot Valley and Lewis and Clark Country
In Lucca, Italy, composer Giacomo Pucchini enjoys a smoke, the only smoking statue I’ve seen
Florence’s fascist-era Stazione Santa Maria Novella is, at least in my view, the ugliest station I’ve seen
One of the world’s best-known artists in his time, he’s little heard of today, except in his own museum
