Houston, Texas
Palace of the Golden Orbs
An unrealized Taoist palace left abandoned in a Houston suburb.
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Houston, Texas
An unrealized Taoist palace left abandoned in a Houston suburb.
Houston, Texas
At the "Garage Mahal" in Houston, car culture is about more than just driving.
Houston, Texas
A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.
Houston, Texas
A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.
Houston, Texas
Giant heads occasionally litter the industrial Houston neighborhood where sculptor David Adickes has his studio.
Houston, Texas
A little bit Wonkatania, a little bit pink elephant.
Houston, Texas
A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.
Houston, Texas
One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.
Houston, Texas
A park filled with vibrant mosaics created by more than 300 folk artists.
Baytown, Texas
Tucked away down this Baytown alley exists a one-of-a-kind art exhibit of technicolor umbrellas.
Stowe, Vermont
The highest peak in the state of Vermont has some interesting features.
Keeseville, New York
This sandstone gorge in New York State's Adirondack Mountains is home to waterfalls, flumes, and more.
South Hero, Vermont
A gardener's enduring labor of love is spread throughout a small Vermont town.
Houston, Texas
There is an unmarked red button hidden over Houston's Buffalo Bayou that is just begging to pushed...
North Bennington, Vermont
The building that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House."
Alton, England
A creepy tree with a local legend that inspired a nearby theme park ride.
Fairhope, Alabama
This small hut in the middle of a parking lot was once the wooded sanctuary of the 'Hermit of Montrose.'
Elberta, Alabama
Come for the boats, stay to explore the intriguing assortment of art.
Tucson, Arizona
In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.
Austin, Texas
A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.
Katy, Texas
255 feet of suds, scrubbers, and blow dryers.
Cold Spring, New York
A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.
Beacon, New York
The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.
Beacon, New York
This abandoned cemetery is crumbling into ruin, exposing the artifacts and bodies buried there.