This tiny chapel withstood a massive mudslide and flash flood.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

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

This historical swimming pool near Miami is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

Over 120,000 curious objects that have shaped our modern world.

Austin’s local mountain isn’t really a mountain at all.

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

Pittsburgh's literal underground railroad.

This scrap yard doubles as a naive art gallery full of found art and farm animals.

A rare wayfinding portmanteau of “Street” and “Avenue.”

Before becoming a public park, this spot was a shell midden, a fort, and an amusement park.

The stone labyrinth in this New Orleans city park was laid to symbolize healing in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

The magic's in the hole!

A masterpiece of LGBT art has been restored in what may now be the most valuable restroom in America.

A Masterpiece with a Tragic History.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

The 5.5-mile ring of steel posts around the Capitol Building is one of the largest (and most uniform) of its kind in the world.

This storybook New England home is actually a decommissioned lighthouse.