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A former electrical substation is now home to an eccentric junk art masterpiece.

This eclectic, mosaic-clad home includes a bamboo ping-pong loft and a "Whispermaphones" intercom.

This eclectic Austin curiosity shop is home to all things strange and unusual.

DIY collection of eclectic holdings.

A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

The ruins of the suspension bridge hang over Kingsbury Run as a ghost of racial prejudice.

This garden memorial marks the site where 12-year-old Tamir Rice was fatally shot by the Cleveland Police Department.

An abandoned, rusty old relic of railroad history stands at attention over the Cuyahoga River.

This steamer is known as "The ship that built Cleveland."

A wonderful and easily overlooked museum tucked in Ohio's Burke Lakefront Airport.

Abandoned since the 1950s, the streetcar lane beneath the heavily trafficked bridge lays empty and unused.

An unoccupied lighthouse encased in layers of ice from the waters of Lake Erie.

One lonely, modern pyramid has gone from corporate think tank to deserted boondoggle.

A former hospital is now home to a pizza parlor and maybe a few ghosts.

A local landmark with generations of spraypainted messages, and more being added each day.

Florida’s half-sized replica of the Vietnam Veterans Wall.

Pensacola's UFO home has withstood many hurricanes—just as the experimental 1960s design intended.

Neglected resting place of some of the city's early luminaries—and a woman encased in concrete.

Japanese gardens dedicated to the Japanese farmer that refused to throw in the trowel.