Offices from New York to Bogota celebrated women in the corporate world. On Wednesday night, over 30 buildings worldwide lit up in honor of International Women’s Day. As part of the Catalyst Skyline ...

Symbol researcher and art historian Liisa Väisänen helps interpret surprising details in the built environment. Are blood sacrifices being made in the University? Let’s hope not. However, such things ...

A final thrust of the crowbar cracked the wooden crate open, and the architect, the anthropologist, and the mortar expert leaned in to look at the oddity that had drawn them to an out-of-the-way ...

There are bigger buildings. There are gaudier, more astounding ones. But on the occasion of its 90th birthday — May 1 — let be said for all time: There is only one Empire State Building. "It's a ...

Update, October 8, 2009: Dan Brown's new novel The Lost Symbol takes readers on a spine-tingling tour of some of Washington, D.C.'s most famous buildings. With Masonic symbolism as its theme, the book ...

Walk in the building noted on the map, facing the stairs. Going up the stairs, turn to the right side of the room. The Symbol can be found on the wall adjacent to the yellow crate. The third and final ...