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

Auburn's iconic eagle flight goes back to a 19th century eagle that dropped dead on the field after inspiring the football team to victory.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

A New England curiosity cabinet, one hundred years on.

Da Vinci's equestrian statue, 500 years in the making.

The short-lived history of a new republic and British control in West Florida.

The beams of the New College, Oxford dining hall come with an amazing story.

The world's largest set of the ten commandments lay nestled in the heart of the Great Smoky Mountains.

Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million Mexican free-tail bats.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

3/4-scale model of the White House in Atlanta, Georgia.

A house and yard adorned with bizarre concrete sculptures in a Milwaukee suburb.

A popular oddity on display in a stately building, offering a symbolic commentary.

The final resting place of the businessman-turned-astronomer who helped discover Pluto stands near his observatory.

This clifftop arch is a natural stunner.

Centuries of crashing waves carved out this small hole in the rock, which lights up at certain parts of the year.

The oldest attraction in Disneyland is a prehistoric stump that Walt may have bought for his wife.

The ruins of the largest gladiatorial school in Rome are largely hidden under modern streets.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

This magnificent castle grew from a small Moorish fortress, and reportedly inspired two iconic Disney castles.

An amazing example of early-20th-century architecture, this church features marble transported from Utah.