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.
Hillsborough, California
A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.
Nekoma, North Dakota
The remnants of an early American attempt at missile defense.
Herzberg am Harz, Germany
What was once thought to be a wellspring of unicorn bones is actually just a prehistoric burial site.
Rochester, New York
Comprehensive gaming collection of over 30,000 electronic games and consoles.
Glen Rose, Texas
Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.
Halsteren, Netherlands
Invisible bridge parts the waters, invoking biblical images and preserving the ominous feel of an ancient moat.
Eggenburg, Austria
Artfully arranged bones of 5,800 Austrians.
Darmstadt, Germany
A German apartment building hosting as many trees as human occupants.
Hythe, England
A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.
Cleveland, Ohio
An unoccupied lighthouse encased in layers of ice from the waters of Lake Erie.
San Jose, California
The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.
Aarhus, Denmark
This colorful artistic feature atop a Danish art gallery allows visitors to stroll through a rainbow.
Allouville-Bellefosse, France
Two small chapels housed inside an ancient tree.
Seale, Alabama
A former taxidermist has turned his old shop into a folk art mecca.
Grangemouth, Scotland
The heads of two giant mythological water horses honor Scotland's horselord past.
Falkirk, Scotland
Old-fashioned knowledge and modern engineering create the world's only rotating boatlift.
Sparta, Wisconsin
These molds for fiberglass statues have formed an eerie, accidental sculpture park.
Montreal, Québec
Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.
Vancouver, British Columbia
This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.
Alliance, Nebraska
An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.
Munich, Germany
The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.
Meyrin, Switzerland
Home of the Large Hadron Collider and the birthplace of the World Wide Web.
Pyongyang, North Korea
This abandoned-looking amusement park is frighteningly open for business.