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

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.

The largest source of fossilized insects anywhere.

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

The biggest solar telescope in the world helps reveal the secrets of our sun.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

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

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

The unluckiest U-boat in the entire German fleet is now on display in a Chicago museum.

A science teacher's dream.