An exercise in patience and imagination, where Mother Earth turned common stuff into precious hidden treasures.

This metallic stampede sits frozen on a Washington ridge yet the artist's vision is still incomplete.

A bust of the first president welcomes visitors to the only town in America called George, Washington.

A giant milk bottle from the 1930s beckons drivers to this diner.

This playground sculpture of an icon from the past is dedicated to the children of the future.

This house was largely built out of hundreds of thousands of discarded glass embalming fluid bottles.

Population: three people, two dogs, and one old grouch.

Natural rock water slides hidden in the remote forests of northern Idaho.

A small town market proudly displays numerous taxidermied animals along its walls.

This once-booming Gold Rush town is now home to a herd of feral donkeys.

This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.

This huge dam across the Colorado River caused an armed standoff between two U.S. states.

One of the best-preserved ghost towns in Arizona speaks to the difficulties of establishing mining towns in the 19th century American West.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Since World War II people have been decorating this stretch of the Yuma desert with signatures arranged out of rocks.

Walk through the actual strap iron cells and solitary chambers of Arizona Territory’s first prison.

Semi-recognized center of the world, with many oddities.

A scrap-metal sculpture recalls an infamous 19th-century camel.

This memorial pyramid marker honors one of the United States Government's first official camel riders.

A collection of old shoes in the middle of nowhere.

In California, colorful roadside signs remind us all that love transcends borders.

In this roadside "community for the small," abandoned toys gain new lives.

Artist Jack Pierson made this surreal sculpture in honor of Wonder Valley, a countercultural community on edge of civilization.

This dormant volcanic crater has been converted from a roiling pit of magma to a pleasant hiking spot.