This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

This giant green head remembers one of America's jazz giants.

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.

A tribute to one granddaughter's old apartment which now represents the whims of each visitor.

No one knows how many bodies are in this vault in a Chicago public park.

Home to a protest movement, a bombing, and a dramatic change in labor history.

Fresh wooden posts have been added to ancient holes to recreate a primitive henge clock.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

What was meant to be a temporary exhibit is now a permanent fixture at the St. Louis Zoo filled with beautiful birds.

This is not your typical jungle gym.

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

Six tiny houses built for working class people form the largest intentional cluster of Wright homes anywhere.

The lecture hall where Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrated the long-distance phone call.

Abraham Lincoln's likeness rests at the top of this giant totem pole.

The U.S. Navy's last diesel-electric submarine rests half-submerged in the middle of Portland.

This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.

At this Minnesota state park you can easily wade across the source of the mighty Mississippi.

Half-sized replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa built to honor Galileo.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

A portrait of the Charter Oak hangs in a frame made from the Charter Oak.

An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

The home where a lovestruck Fitzgerald wrote his first published novel, "This Side of Paradise."

A small marionette collection located within the dark cellars of an 11th-century Austrian castle.