The Branch Davidian compound known as the Mount Carmel Center became the site of one of the most controversial law enforcement operations in U.S. history.

Where the famed daredevil attempted to launch himself across a canyon in a custom-built rocket.

This hulking rock formation balances on a pedestal that is 3 feet by 17 inches.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

One woman's decades-long obsession with the "La Fée Verte."

The room where Vincent van Gogh died.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

Nine tiny mice sculptures hide in plain sight along Main Street.

This historic theater's pipe organ still accompanies silent films just like it did in 1929.

A Route 66 filling station that was designed to resemble the Hagia Sophia, and is now the symbol of an arts district.

A half-size replica of the World Trade Center towers above Tulsa.

The fifth tallest statue in the United States is a shirtless monument to the oil worker.

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

This historic folk art garden contains a nightmare tower that claims to be the world's largest concrete totem pole.

Inside the unassuming cemetery chapel is a magnificent stained glass window and mosaics.

A dazzling display of lights and crystals.

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

A jukebox headstone marks the grave of the Cleveland disc jockey credited with coining the term “rock 'n' roll."