A statue commemorate Tommie Smith and John Carlos's brave protest at the 1968 Olympics, a watershed moment for civil rights.

A life-sized mammoth sculpture marks the spot where the remains of a Columbian mammoth were discovered in 2005.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

Two Civil War-era cemeteries stuck between runways at the world's busiest airport.

This hidden stone has absorbed decades of human anxiety.

This rare archive of original recordings and photos uncovers the early days of hip hop culture.

These expertly crafted, scientifically accurate glass sea creatures were once an international phenomenon.

This grand stone tower was dedicated to a famed American humorist almost by coincidence.

The moving metal works of one troubled artist can still be viewed on his front lawn... for now.

A replica of the first public theater built in California.

A gleaming white tower in ornate Indian style soars above the low-slung bungalows of north Tampa.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

A seemingly inexplicable memorial honors a beloved Tampa fruit-seller.

These former theme park figures have a new lease on life outside a water plant-turned-restaurant.

"Bite or Smite" became the unlikely mascot of a Tampa suburb.

Each summer, the migratory bats living beneath the bypass form "batnadoes" at dusk.

Where the first "expert riders, willing to risk death daily" for the Pony Express were recruited.

An eccentric home stands out in an otherwise average neighborhood with mosaics, mini topiaries, and kinetic sculpture.

Man-made waterfall is the tallest in Mainland China.

Nestled in the heart of a Texas town is a dreamy secret garden dating back to the 1940s.

There is an unmarked red button hidden over Houston's Buffalo Bayou that is just begging to pushed...