This 47-foot chile pepper sculpture welcomes Scoville heat unit obsessed tourists to the Big Chile Inn.

The entire history of the U.S. Space Shuttle Program is painted on an enormous roadside water tank.

The world's second largest single-dish radio telescope, once used to contact E.T.

The bat-covered home of one of the world's most popular brands of rum is located on a tropical Art Deco campus.

Used as a military post in three different engagements, this fort has remained incomplete and unfired upon for nearly 200 years.

Georgia's highest point was given its strange name thanks to a simple translation error.

This abstract roadside poultry was saved from demolition by outraged drivers and pilots.

Where school buses go to die and be reborn as whimsical works of art.

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

One of the best-selling bar bands in American music history is commemorated in their hometown's Five Points neighborhood.

This home is decked out like a psychedelic explosion of colors and bowling balls.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

A popular oddity on display in a stately building, offering a symbolic commentary.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

A rare tour of a commercial jet assembly plant, held inside one of the largest buildings in the world.

Measuring approximately 200 feet long, Swampy is the world's largest alligator-shaped building.

One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.

Electrical pylon in the shape of Disney's beloved mouse.

Nearly 200 prehistoric giants lurk among the trees at this theme park.

A circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

At Bern's Steak House, there's always room for dessert—it's just upstairs.

Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.