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One of the largest artillery pieces in the world sits in a Washington D.C. parking lot.

Contrary to popular belief, this secluded statue doesn't represent Pennsylvania's founder.

The Forest Service's surprisingly sophisticated collection of wildfire prevention art features America's most beloved bear.

This translucent sculpture represents a quintessential component of New York City's skyline.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

A little marble compass above George Washington's (empty) tomb in the Capitol marks where D.C.'s four quadrants intersect.

A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.

Frank Lloyd Wright died a year before construction on his largest public project even began.

The sounds of the world's largest fully functioning pipe organ dazzle shoppers at a Philadelphia Macy's.

Quirky movable sculptures have been racing through the town since 1983.

Thriving meadows span a rooftop in one of Brooklyn's most heavily industrialized neighborhoods.

The dramatic upward-curving roof is one of the most iconic examples of Googie architecture that still stands today.

This Birdsill Holly fire hydrant is the remnant of a very different type of hydration innovation.

The attic and basement house two museums stuffed with oddities like swallowed spoon handles and a shrunken head.

One of few surviving standpipe water towers in the U.S.

Eduardo Kobra’s breathtaking 32,300-square-foot graffiti wall took over Rio’s Olympic Boulevard.

The largest open-air contemporary art center in South America is a unique experience in the Atlantic Forest.

The antique hotel still has a jail in the basement, though the cockfighting ring is long gone.

Corn-inthian columns with a uniquely American take on neoclassical architecture.

A deserted hodgepodge of experimental structures designed by nearby university students.

Ordinary art transforms to extraordinary thanks to locals' quirky sense of humor.

Grotesque statues of figures from Buddhist hell haunt the temple's Sin Park.

Behind an abandoned storefront is an example of pioneering 1930s gas station architecture.

This quiet park's strange sedimentary spires were named after Kodak's color film.