Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

This guide to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao follows the 1991 meeting where American museum director Thomas Krens named the Basque government a startling price for a building it hadn't yet designed, and the officials who said yes almost immediately. It follows architect Frank Gehry, obsessed with fish, ships and light, as he shaped the titanium-clad curves you're standing before. Watch how the panels shift color as clouds pass overhead.