A 56-foot tall statue of the god of fire looks out over Birmingham, Alabama.

Designed by Maya Lin, the memorial honors 41 individuals who died fighting for equal rights between 1954 and 1968.

Bananas are often left for the first monkey America ever recovered alive after being launched into space.

One person’s lost luggage is another person’s treasure.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

The biggest museum dedicated to insects in North America, one of the largest in the world.

A Montreal deli that was so beloved that it was allowed to circumvent their laws of language.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

Cryptid lake monster honored with its own monument.

This 38-drawer structure claims the superlative title, but it isn't the world's only giant filing cabinet.

The monument dedicated to Phineas Gage in the town where his accident happened.

These mysterious petroglyphs in Vermont reflect a troubled history in the treatment of Native American culture.

The giant squid's 27-foot-long corpse lies preserved within a Sarasota aquarium.