From overly ambitious (and eventually abandoned) atomic dream to bustling office park.

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

A giant open-air sculpture made of over 200 full-sized boats.

A stunning landscape of bunkers that once stored chemical weapons.

Remember that scene in the Matrix, when Neo is in the big white room with all the weapons flying by? Well, this is what it would look like if he had wanted trees instead of guns.

Each winter this underground cave forms a dazzling ice palace.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

This abandoned motel doesn't welcome guests anymore, but decay and a creepy atmosphere still call it home.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

Contractors in this Oregon town have been stamping their names in sidewalks since 1908.

The trunks of 3,000 year-old trees lurk beneath the surface of this crystal clear lake in Oregon.

Formerly secret, precariously perched boulders.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

Bridges, terraces, and replicas of historic structures all built of rock and petrified wood by one man.

A sprawling cave network created by a lone lava tube.

A graceful natural rock formation stands astride the point where the Gulf of California meets the Pacific Ocean.