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

You have to love a museum with a truly dedicated focus. A focus on Superman, for example.

Where Elvis Presley received his first Army buzz cut.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.

World's largest Christmas store.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

An abandoned movie set in the desert of West Texas.

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

The world's tallest statue of an American hero.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

Controversially claiming the title of world's biggest bass drum, UT's Big Bertha was once made radioactive by the Manhattan Project.

A recreated Stonehenge stands in a country field, complete with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries.

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.