This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

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

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

$10,000 won in a poker game in 1884 allowed James Draughon to build this intriguing home.

These strange large stones served as a campsite and lookout post for generations of Native Americans.

A replica of where the Last Supper was held.

A Christian-themed amusement park and complex rocked by scandals.

This psychedelic tromp l'oeil seems to be beckoning drivers to crash into a wall.

This titanic steel chain linking two buildings was installed without permission but instantly beloved.

In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.

Dothan, Alabama has been invaded by scores of anthropomorphic peanuts.

For a time this small Florida town of less than 1,000 residents was the national leader in dismemberment.

This Route 66 classic sports a giant fiberglass rabbit that you can ride.

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.

It is locally loved and ridiculed for literally looking like poop.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

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

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

A water tower shaped like a giant coffee pot looms over a small Swedish village in Central California.