Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ever since The World’s Fair debuted in 1851, people worldwide have been fascinated by the creativity, inspiration and ideas ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Not much is left of the massive buildings built for the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. Despite a rocky start, the event became one of ...

NEW YORK -- You can just barely see them through the window of the No. 7 subway as it rattles into the elevated station in Corona, Queens: a gigantic steel sphere, two rocket ships, and towers that ...

The 1939 World Fair's theme was "The World of Tomorrow." The long-lost Rockwell Kent oil painting will be at the Salon Art + Design fair in New York. Rockwell Kent, Power (1939). Photo Courtesy of ...

While on a walking tour of downtown Saint Louis, Missouri, I was surprised to stop at a building that originally stood in New York City. Now an IMO's Pizza restaurant, the concrete structure was first ...

“USA250: The Story of the World’s Greatest Economy” is a yearlong WSJ series examining America’s first 250 years. Read more about it from Editor in Chief Emma Tucker. Before splashy Silicon Valley ...

NEW YORK (Amazing America) — The 1964 New York World's Fair may be best remembered for its optimistic and visionary outlook on the future. It brought us the birth of the Ford Mustang, which is riding ...

Political corruption, poor turnout and a planned KKK march made the 'sesqui' a failure that had lasting implications for the ...

Philadelphia played a defining role in the history of world fairs by hosting the Centennial Exposition, the first official ...

Jade Doskow takes pictures of optimism frozen in time. For almost 10 years, the New York-based photographer has traveled around the planet to the sites where millions once gathered for World's Fairs.

The public was invited inside a New York City architectural monument today for a view that has been off-limits for 27 years. The New York State Pavilion, designed by Philip Johnson, was open for just ...

They’re trying to pick up the pieces. Five historical mosaics commemorating Queens’ World Fairs will be demolished in the next few months — despite preservationists’ impassioned pleas to rescue the ...