It boasts an 11.2-meter-high arched ceiling covered with 190,000 sheets of 22.5-karat gold leaves, each measuring just 0.001 millimeter thick. The leaves, which contain at least 90 percent gold ...

As a fan of the HBO show "The Gilded Age," I recognized the ceiling from the show's opening credits. "If you visualize the setting lit by the gas of the period, it would have given you the ...