Amazing Architecture: City of the Arts and the Sciences, Valencia, Spain

The City of the Arts and the Sciences complex in Valencia, Spain, houses a science museum, theaters, performance halls, an aquarium and more. Built in a dried-out riverbed, its space-age educational and recreational structures were designed and developed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava as a present to his home city. Shown above is “L'Hemisfèric,” a dome opened in 1998 that includes, among other features, an Imax cinema.