An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

This Netherlands museum holds a gloriously mechanical collection of ornate musical automata.

This simple gravestone remembers a pig who single-hoofedly raised $19,000,000 for the Navy.

The famous Beatle secretly visited this Illinois town several times to visit his sister.

This odd stone memorial remembers a loyal dog who offended the rail barons with his speed and saved his master with his pee.

Even with its slightly risible name this colossal cross is still able to inspire awe.

Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.

Erosion and time have created a naturally-formed water park.

Fresh wooden posts have been added to ancient holes to recreate a primitive henge clock.

An abandoned factory along the Mississippi coated by a giant mural.

This mosaic-covered bar is brimming with curated curios.

A chessmaster's dream destination.

What was meant to be a temporary exhibit is now a permanent fixture at the St. Louis Zoo filled with beautiful birds.

What was once a presidential estate is now an exotic menagerie and home to the Budweiser Clydesdales.

Giant works of art interspersed throughout meadows and woodlands offer a new discovery at every turn.

400 million-year old limestone caverns nestled in the Ozarks served as shelter and a hideout for cultures throughout North American history.

The world's second largest rocking chair is found on Route 66 in Cuba... Missouri.

Once decrepit and slated for demolition, now one of the longest pedestrian bridges in the world.

Follow the steps, and this roadside artwork will teach you how to dance.

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

A complicated contraption for telling time by the moon.

The Cambridge pub where Francis Crick announced that he and James Watson had discovered the DNA double-helix.