Austin, Texas
Mueller SunFlowers
A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.
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Austin, Texas
A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.
New York, New York
Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.
Austin, Texas
Locals dubbed it the "Owl Building" because of its bird-like appearance.
Marfa, Texas
This old abandoned sign flickers to announce a motel that isn't even there.
Valentine, Texas
A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.
Marfa, Texas
Minimalist modern art on a repurposed military base in rural Texas.
Terlingua, Texas
An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.
Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
A giant "X" symbolizes the blood spilled from the brutal Juárez drug wars.
Charleston, South Carolina
Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.
Charleston, South Carolina
Once the most flame resistant building in the country, the South Carolina Historical Society building was almost burnt down in a fire.
Columbia, South Carolina
An old train trestle re-imagined as an Egyptian obelisk.
Fort Worth, Texas
A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.
Austin, Texas
Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.
Austin, Texas
One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.
Shiprock, New Mexico
Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.
Monticello, Utah
Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.
Seaside, Oregon
Where Nor'easters go to die.
Cannon Beach, Oregon
A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.
Nehalem, Oregon
Mountain known by the Tillamook Tribe as "the place of the supreme deity."
Neskowin, Oregon
The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.
Yachats, Oregon
On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.
Fairbanks, Alaska
North America's first frozen mummified remains of an ice age steppe bison, the 36,000 year-old mummy named "Blue Babe."
Port Orford, Oregon
A collection of colorful dinosaurs hidden in an actual rainforest.
Inverness, California
An enchanting tunnel of cypress trees leads to an old morse code station still used today.