its elegant neo-gothic design and riverside location were inspired by its counterpart in london. it's enormous, with literally miles of grand halls, designed to help administer that sprawling, multinational hapsburg empire. by the end of world war i, the hapsburgs were gone, and hungary, while much smaller, was fully independent. but then came the nazis, followed by the communists. that illusive freedom was finally won after the fall of the soviet union in 1989, and since then, the city has blossomed. today, hungary rules only hungary, and it's ruled not by an emperor, but by democratically elected representatives who legislate from what's now a palace of democracy. like vienna, budapest feels more grandiose than the capital of a relatively small country, but the city remains the cultural capital of eastern europe, with a keenly developed knack for good living. you can enjoy that hungarian joy of life at the széchenyi baths. soak with the locals. of the city's two dozen or so traditional mineral baths, this is the most accessible and fun. budapest is hot, literally. it sits on a

. >> the bridge is largely gothic. the shape of the bridge is a pointed arch, signifying hands in prayer. while it is not a religiously inspired bridge, it is a spiritually inspired bridge, and the point of the arch is to reach up heavenward. >> reporter: this bridge is steeped in history, both good and bad. but even today, it remains one of the world's most popular structures. just how popular? >> if you go to italy, ask for il ponte de brooklyn, or brooklyn bridge chewing gum. it's still the most popular chewing gum in italy. >> now, there's a statistic you can really sink your teeth into. reporting from one of our nation's most beautiful and enduring bridges, for "teen kids news," i'm siena. >>> it's time for "word!" one definition is real. the others are fake. see if you can find the real one. hydrology. for starters, it's a noun. does it mean the study of the waters of the earth? or is it the tendency of a dog to seek a watering place? or how about an illness resulting in constant thirst? hydrology is the study of

this was high gothic stuff. >> physically, what do you do? at a piano and you get this idea. how do you come up with these songs? >> the "phantom," the phrase -- for example -- ♪ i thought as a dark rock song. wasn't specifically "the phantom of the opera". in fact, the phrase went da-da-da-da, i changed it in the end to da-da-da-da. you see? these things evolve. but it's quite funny because we're coming up to the 25th anniversary of "the phantom of the opera" and we're going to do a big concert in london to celebrate. i've been through the archive footage and everything and it's extraordinary how different how the first try out of the phantom we did to what ended up on stage. the songs were there but half of them went. >> tell me about "evita". that was another hit pap huge success on broadway and in london. we talked about how it didn't start. there's a great story "don't cry for me argentina." >> i was working on an extremely ill fated musical called "jeebs" which never saw the light of day. well, it did, unfortunately, for a brief time. i

because they're willing to exercise the courage that politicians are gothic raising the debt ceiling as the president pointed out on monday has become to establish way of doing things in this town. in his words, routine. but that must change because we have to restore true hope to the country. if we don't we will continue to rack up debt that at some point we will be unable to repay. every day the president is see what our choices for the future. every day the president is seeking a way to hope and to change. and i've even more concern is the effect that this thing has had on job creation. i have seen it all across america. and it's absolutely heartbreaking when you see it, to go to a factory where just a year or so ago there were over 200 employees and today it is 100 or less. and it's an employee owned country -- employee owned company which employs have to let their fellow employees go. the more government spends the more government taxes. the more it taxes the less money the job creators have to create jobs. the larger the public sector grows, the more the private sector shrinks.

this is a 72,000 square foot gothic chateau.ok. >> which a lot of us are familiar with,h,t's called a mall. >> nothing's more homey than concrete. >> take a look at this. the chateau, it's got all different things. 13 bedrooms, 14 bathrooms, billiard rooms, a home theater, wine cellar, whole nine yards. it looks even like san quentin sort of. >> it looks like a prison. it's just weird. i guess like you said, this guy's business is concrete. >> it's concrete, this is what he does. put some bars on the windows. cinderblocks. >> wasn't it like somebody -- >> submitted blueprints, it's bigger than the white house. the white house is 55,000 square feet. it's beating out some of the biggest houses that people have thought of. >> concrete jungle, right? have fun. i love this story. as a new jersey native here. and all the -- "the jersey shore." >> and you watch "the jersey shore." >> i think those kids are hysterical. i know everyone complains about them. that's been the big talking point. "the jersey shore" is hurting the image of new