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Calhoun, Georgia
Rock Garden Calhoun
Incredible miniature towns and buildings created and decorated with thousands of tiny rocks.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
'Cognition Enhancer'
This sculpture perfectly models the molecular structure of a drug that was never produced.
Batchelor, Australia
Karlstein Castle Replica
This mini version of the famous Bohemian castle was lovingly built by a Czech immigrant and mineworker.
Weston, West Virginia
Blenko Man
This colorful West Virginia cowboy greets passersby with a glassy stare.
Pacific Grove, California
Pacific Grove Butterfly House
Hopeless romantics will swoon over the sweet story behind this bright and colorful home.
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
Ilana Goor Museum
A modern-day cabinet of curiosities housed in a 300-year-old inn.
Permanently Closed
Senoia, Georgia
Barbie Beach
This ever-changing arrangement of naked dolls even caught the attention of "The Walking Dead" crew.
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Twentynine Palms, California
The Love Signs of Twentynine Palms
In California, colorful roadside signs remind us all that love transcends borders.
Envigado, Colombia
La Casa de las Piedritas
This exceptional home was a 32-year labor of love by a man determined to build his wife the most beautiful stone house in the world.
Twentynine Palms, California
Samuelson's Rocks
The only thing stranger than stumbling onto these philosophical musings is the story of the homesteader who created them.
Marco Island, Florida
Otter Mound Preserve
Decorative shell walls built in the 1940s sit atop an ancient midden created by the Calusa Native Americans.
Stockholm, Sweden
Snösätra Wall of Fame
Street artists transformed this abandoned industrial neighborhood into one of Europe's largest graffiti exhibitions.
Ashton-in-Makerfield, England
Rectory Nurseries
Quirky outsider art transforms this garden shop into a little stone fantasyland.
Cambridge, Ohio
Dickens Victorian Village
Hundreds of 19th-century characters descend upon an Ohio town every autumn.
New York, New York
The Sisyphus Stones
Hordes of precariously balanced stone figures crowd the shores of the Hudson River.
Prague, Czechia
R2-D2 of Prague
Street artists transformed an abandoned air vent into the beloved Star Wars robot.
Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
Pier2 Art Center
A thriving community of Taiwanese art.
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Silver Spring, Maryland
Super PACyderm
An allegorical sculpture in Maryland wears the artist’s politics on its trunk.
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