Two Ming Dynasty lion statues guard the entrance to the journalism school.

This whimsical statue marks the high water level from the Great Flood of 1993.

A unique post-modern public space in the middle of the Warehouse District in New Orleans.

Tiny historical streetcars wind through a small scale version of Crescent City in this whimsical train garden.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

An Oklahoma museum that celebrates the history of the "Mother Road."

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

Opened in 1976, this monster-sized version of the fast-food franchise is sometimes called the Epic McD.

An abandoned mine where dreams of quicksilver trickled away over 75 years ago.

An abandoned concrete jungle surrounded by a lush park.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

A natural formation that resembles a camel resting in the New Mexico desert.

This opulent Pueblo Deco movie palace melds Art Deco and Native American motifs.

Its history includes dinosaur fossils, cattle rustlers, Georgia O'Keeffe, and a mythical giant rattlesnake named Vivaron.

The first car-centric shopping plaza in the U.S. brought a little bit of Spain to downtown Kansas City.

A commemoration of over 150 of St. Louis's favorite sons and daughters.

An off-the-beaten-path place to literally hang beneath Milwaukee's Holton Street Bridge.

Statue dedicated to the star of an old television show.

One of just a few cities in the world to base their center of government on an island. Others: Paris and Osaka.

The red brick house where the father of rock 'n' roll wrote some of his classic hits.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

A home designed to be on the cutting edge of comfortable, low-cost living.