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

Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the 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.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

A tree bears footwear on the loneliest road in America.

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

These once-beautiful historic graveyards are set against the barren Virginia City hills.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

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

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

The world’s largest combined collection of U.S. and Russian aircraft got its start in a poultry building.

A landscape of massive spherical boulders are the main attraction in this Kansas State Park.