The "lost friend” is the most famous of the six moai statues that were removed from Easter Island.

A gruesome and mysterious ancient sculpture of a pagan deity from the Roman occupation of Celtic Britain.

This intriguing Bronze Age artifact spent centuries hidden within a Welsh faerie hill.

A naturally mummified 2,000-year-old man.

Despite the name, this ancient piece of crystal may not have been a lens at all.

This magnificently macabre shield shows the power of chivalrous love in medieval times.

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

A few times a day, you can see an animatronic cowboy shoot-out.

This library is a reader's paradise and a plant lover's dream.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

Locals dubbed it the "Owl Building" because of its bird-like appearance.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

A symbol of Texas pride.

A collection of the best toys ever made inside a museum devoted to play.

Comprehensive gaming collection of over 30,000 electronic games and consoles.

The "last holdout of the Confederacy” actually sat at the edge of the Canadian border.

This Cleveland mansion has played host to a German singing group, a Prohibition-era speakeasy, a funeral parlor, and many civil rights meetings.

An enormous factory from the late 1800s sits abandoned on Cleveland eastside.

Just outside the Ohio Supreme Court sits a testament to justice.

Ohio's 19th-century communist micro-society.

This massive airship factory is so large that it has its own indoor weather.

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.