Creating this diorama spurred naturalist Carl Akeley to begin advocating to protect the apes.

This magnificent herd of stampeding elephants has been frozen in time for over a century.

Here be dragons.

Once thought to be the fabled Holy Grail, it is now known to be an oil lamp.

Outstanding taxidermy dioramas showcase the grandeur of the continent's wildlife with spooky realism.

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

This is one really big nut.

A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.

The summer home and later final residence of acclaimed American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens.

America's oldest archaeological site or a muddled case of wishful thinking.

This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.

The fastest mail service in the west is tracked and memorialized along this 1,400 mile trail.

The house where the famed outlaw was shot by a dirty coward is now a museum to the criminal's legacy.

This iron and wood Civil War city-ship was the first vessel to be sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo.

A grandiose octagonal home crowned by a large dome stands out among the antebellum mansions.

A 200-year-old bar is all that remains of one Mississippi River town's rough-and-tumble past.

Giant novelty guitars now mark the spot where Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the devil.

This two-room shotgun shack in Tupelo is the birthplace of a King.

Bouncing, delightful, mechanical art at the MIT Museum.