Giant heads occasionally litter the industrial Houston neighborhood where sculptor David Adickes has his studio.

This historical air terminal in Houston is slowly becoming an aviation museum dedicated to the city's aeronautical history.

After just one epic test blast, this literal loose cannon proved too explosive for combat.

Georgia's highest point was given its strange name thanks to a simple translation error.

A decidedly out of place statue memorializes the Blues Brothers characters at this water bottling plant.

A precariously balanced rock perches on the edge of a cliff created tens of thousands of years ago by glacial erosion.

The first singer to cut a country music record is buried in a small graveyard in Atlanta, Georgia.

Healing Springs that once ran red with soldiers' blood.

The first patented shaved-ice machine heralded a snowy wonderland of iced treats at a favorite New Orleans summer shack.

A pair of gigantic baby heads greet passengers at Atocha Station.

Five million people are laid to rest here, more than the population of Madrid itself.

Among the oldest structures in Madrid, these Moorish walls once guarded the medieval city of Mayrit.

Once the grandest synagogue in medieval Spain, it now stands as a memorial of the 15th-century Jewish exile.

The summer tourists on these cliffs are thousands of seabirds.

Every summer local children form "pysja patrols" to save young birds that have wandered from their nests.

A stratovolcano located in the south of Iceland, with a long history of charted activity and a rich mythology attached.

Walk in the footsteps of the gods and straddle two tectonic plates.

The world's largest grapevine has produced a delicious harvest at Hampton Court Palace for almost 250 years.

England's oldest surviving hedge maze has been confusing visitors for over 300 years.

Carved initials which are nearly 500 years old preserve the deposed Queen's presence at Hampton Court Palace.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

The watery entrance for condemned prisoners heading to the Tower of London is still visible along the Thames.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.