New Orleans, Louisiana
The Singing Oak
This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
New Orleans, Louisiana
This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.
Long Beach, California
The 10-foot-wide Long Beach home was built on a dare.
New Orleans, Louisiana
In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.
Cave City, Kentucky
An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.
Albany, California
An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."
Lakeside, California
The smallest Mexican land grant in California was given, and then taken from, a 19th-century teacher and nurse.
Mono County, California
Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.
San Diego, California
One man's quest for the ultimate road trip vehicle.
Irvine, California
One of the largest helium balloons in the U.S. is a 112-foot ginormous orange.
Cedar Crest, New Mexico
Deadly airliner crash preserved for those willing to climb and pay respects.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.
New York, New York
A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."
Dripping Springs, Texas
An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.
Castroville, California
An abandoned boat that's been stranded mysteriously for decades.
San Diego, California
The freeway that never was.
Klamath, California
These cinderblock farmhouses were actually World War II radar stations in disguise.
West Hollywood, California
Room 32 of the Alta Cienega Motel has grown into a shrine to the Lizard King.
Mission Viejo, California
This beautiful ridge-top trail is dotted by tiny homes apparently built by a group of itinerant fairies.
Winters, California
The only parking meter in the entire town, it is surrounded by 100 free spaces.
Castroville, California
It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."
Los Angeles, California
Hand-crafted tributes to a stray cat named "Room 8" now cover this LA elementary school.
Lemon Grove, California
The Giant Lemon of Lemon Grove.
Oakland, California
This mysterious series of teeny guerrilla installations sheds a whimsical light on street art in Oakland.