Las Vegas's very own 40-foot-tall fire-spewing praying mantis.

“Live hard, ride fast, eat pizza” at this joint filled with Evel Knievel memorabilia.

Temporary Burning Man sculpture made of two 18-wheelers.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

Fans of vintage Vegas, kitsch, and toy pony-based gambling now flock to a casino called The D.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

A relief that wraps around the concourse of Los Angeles's World Trade Center marks one of the city's failed urban design plans.

Inside this chapel, Victorian jailers took the separate system to new levels.

This once-controversial and slightly confusing statue of Achilles was built out of captured cannons.

The bronze uniforms commemorate the vital role of women during World War II.

This ancient Egyptian obelisk still bears the wounds of World War I.

The pockmarks across the building's facade are remnants of the Blitz.

The beloved beast's taxidermy remains sit in the Natural History Museum's cafe.

An iconic location along the Los Angeles River where countless movie scenes are filmed.

Though the original building has been demolished, these massive bronze doors were saved.

The oldest standing structure in downtown San Diego.

A tribute to an explorer and naturalist often overlooked by history.

The famous polar explorer stands outside the Royal Geographical Society's headquarters.

This bewitching Babylonian goddess haunts a hallway of the British Museum.

Sculptor Antony Gormley used chaos theory and fractal growth to design his tallest creation.

A seaside town with no sea in sight.

A labyrinthine underworld of tunnels and caverns hides beneath the city.

The star-studded street honors the city's most notable Brummies.

The medieval woodcut-style artwork chronicles life in medieval London.