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Amarillo, Texas

'Ozymandias on the Plains'

A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.
Haesindang Park
Samcheog, South Korea

Haesindang Park

Various forms of phallic art decorate this hill in commemoration of legendary local tragedy.
The original entrance to Royston Cave
Royston, England

Royston Cave

Man-made cave with enigmatic carvings, some say made by the Knights Templar themselves.
Heidelberg Project
Detroit, Michigan

Heidelberg Project

One man's attempt to create an artistic wonder on a run-down block in Detroit.
Boston, Massachusetts

Rainbow Swash

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.
Mitchell, South Dakota

The Corn Palace

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.
Permanently Closed
Chicago, Illinois

The Museum of Holography

A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.
Permanently Closed
Secret Swing in downtown Graffiti Alley in Toronto
Toronto, Ontario

Secret Swing

Secret Swing.
New York, New York

Dream House

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.
Concrete TV
Albany, California

Albany Bulb

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."
Thinking about houses, 1950. by Wilson Scottie
Lausanne, Switzerland

Collection de l'Art Brut

Artworks by loners, prisoners and the criminally insane.
The Broken Kilometer
New York, New York

Broken Kilometer

One kilometer of thick brass rod laid out before your eyes.
Surface of rod
Kassel, Germany

Walter De Maria's Vertical Earth Kilometer

A two-inch thick solid brass rod that extends an astounding one kilometer straight into the earth.
Quemado, New Mexico

‘The Lightning Field’

In the remote high desert of New Mexico, a strange array of poles beckon fury from above.
Permanently Closed
The completed project
Syracuse, New York

World Reclamation Art Project

In DeWitt, New York, a blanket-wrapped gas station makes a creative statement on global dependence on oil.
The amazingly intricate pliers tree
Dover, Ohio

Warther Museum

The spectacular collection of one of the world's best woodcarvers.
Permanently Closed
View from the street
San Francisco, California

Defenestration

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.
Darwin, Minnesota

World's Largest Ball of Twine Rolled by One Man

17,400 lbs., 12 feet in diameter, and 29 years in the making.