This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.

A Dutch passageway's artistic, aquatic-themed makeover pays tribute to the capital city's famed waterways.

The body of at least one victim of a construction accident was left behind in the collapsed pylon, buried under tons of concrete.

The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

Gleaming self-built castle towers made from beer cans and inspired by "Vitamin Mary Jane."

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

The concrete shell of an industry giant remains as a playground for graffiti artists, auto scrappers, and paintball warriors.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

Museum mostly in name, and only a restaurant depending on the day, this place could only exist in Marfa.

A giant "X" symbolizes the blood spilled from the brutal Juárez drug wars.

The ancient latrines of the Greeks, in all their public glory.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

A blooming house of worship for the masses.

The world's longest known cave system.

This reclusive Hopi village in Arizona has been continuously populated longer than anywhere else in America.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

A brooding mansion of clinker brick stands out among the Victorian houses of Pacific Heights.

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.