A Nordic architect reads Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu, Nepal — its golden pagoda, the sacred Bagmati ghats, and a linga said to grant every wish.
Crown Fountain: Glass Towers and Water in Chicago’s Millennium Park
Crown Fountain, Jaume Plensa’s 2004 video sculpture in Chicago’s Millennium Park, pairs 50-foot glass brick towers with a thin black granite reflecting pool.
Buckingham Fountain: Chicago’s Rococo Wedding-Cake Monument
Buckingham Fountain, a 1927 Grant Park landmark in Georgia pink marble, takes its rococo wedding-cake form and seahorses from Versailles’s Latona Fountain.
Chapel of St Non: Clifftop Ruin and Holy Well, St Davids
The Chapel of St Non, a clifftop ruin near St Davids in Pembrokeshire, marks St David’s birthplace and shelters a healing holy well where pilgrims still cast coins.
St Winefride’s Well, Holywell: Perpendicular Shrine Over a Spring
St Winefride’s Well in Holywell, Wales, reads as a Perpendicular chapel set over a star-shaped basin, where pilgrimage, healing water, and martyr legend converge.
Hundertwasserhaus: Vienna’s Expressionist Living Landmark
The Hundertwasserhaus in Vienna is an expressionist apartment house with undulating floors, grass roofs and 250 trees, conceived by Friedensreich Hundertwasser.