Places Edited by breaingram

A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.

A smoke stack so large, the Washington Monument could fit inside!

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

A set of ancient drawings in the desert of Peru that are so massive, many of them can only be fully seen from the sky.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

The self-made house sculpture of an outsider artist who named himself "Chief Rolling Thunder."

Curious rock formations in a tiny Kansas state park.

An oversized metal construction of Billy Tripp's moods going through life.

One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

Artworks by loners, prisoners and the criminally insane.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

A 90-acre park on former landfill that hosts an annual kite festival.

Terrifically morbid cemetary and site of famous Paracelsus' grave.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.