Houston, Texas
Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern
A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.
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Houston, Texas
A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.
Wimberley, Texas
A popular swimming hole that hides one of America's most deadly diving spots.
Amarillo, Texas
A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.
Dripping Springs, Texas
An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.
Fort Worth, Texas
A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Robots, lasers, and whoopee cushions, oh my!
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
The bugs crawling down the front of this office building are almost as big as a '68 VW Beetle.
Wauwatosa, Wisconsin
One of Frank Lloyd Wright's final works was this UFO church.
Madison, Wisconsin
Hidden away in the city of Madison, Wisconsin is a nearly forgotten home that Frank Lloyd Wright built for a childhood friend.
Mount Horeb, Wisconsin
A bypass decorated with large wooden troll carvings.
La Crosse, Wisconsin
Giant six-pack could provide one person a six-pack a day for 3,351 years.
Rhinelander, Wisconsin
The menacing creature had a tremendous influence on the local culture before being exposed as a hoax.
Marshfield, Wisconsin
"Iron Age" creatures fill this huckster's rusted metal sculpture garden.
Simi Valley, California
An eccentric folk art landmark made out of discarded bottles by an inspired "grandma."
Goldfield, Nevada
This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.
Amboy, California
A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.
Escondido, California
This dark, quiet forest on the outskirts of San Diego is dense with rumor and lore.
Carlsbad, California
This large collection of tiny things revels in the art of fine machinery well made.
Poway, California
Take a leisurely ride on a 1906 cable car or a 1907 steam locomotive.
Carlsbad, California
The overgrown ruins of a once thriving World War I-era copper mine.
Crestline, California
This temple, built by an eccentric religious leader before his death, sits guarded and in ruins.
Landers, California
A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.
Landers, California
Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.