Austin, Texas
Frost Bank Tower
Locals dubbed it the "Owl Building" because of its bird-like appearance.
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Austin, Texas
Locals dubbed it the "Owl Building" because of its bird-like appearance.
Austin, Texas
Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.
Greensboro, North Carolina
Art museum based around the collections accumulated over 58 years by one eccentric thrift store owner.
Denver, Colorado
The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.
Charlotte, North Carolina
Colorful murals stationed throughout Charlotte bring poetry to everyone.
Charlotte, North Carolina
A psychological self-portrait in the form of a giant, segmented head.
Charlotte, North Carolina
This nine-story building can be played like an instrument.
Sydney, Australia
A collaboration of art and ornithology mourns the calls of Sydney's lost birds.
Millers Point, Australia
This historic observatory contains the world's oldest refracting lens telescope.
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
This small collection in the back of a shop is the only oddities museum in Saskatoon.
San Francisco, California
A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.
San Francisco, California
Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.
San Francisco, California
An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.
San Francisco, California
This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.
San Francisco, California
The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.
Big Sur, California
This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.
Felton, California
This quirky roadside attraction dives into the many theories surrounding North America's most infamous hairy cryptid.
San Francisco, California
This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.
San Francisco, California
A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.
San Francisco, California
Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.
San Francisco, California
A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.
Toronto, Ontario
One of the largest underground systems runs under Canada's largest urban center.
Charlotte, North Carolina
This scented city oasis was a labor of love.
Madeira Beach, Florida
Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.