An urban laboratory.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

Twenty-seven massive radio antennas on the high plains of New Mexico search for life on other planets.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

The only thing stranger than stumbling onto these philosophical musings is the story of the homesteader who created them.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

Where monkeys run wild and the humans are caged.

A community of collapsing homes more than a mile out from the Florida coast.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.

A quick and simple solution to Cambodia's train woes.

Abandoned soda factory on a Cambodian roadside in a state of beautiful decay.

A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.

A Surreal flight of architectural fancy in Vietnam's Central Highlands.

A desert in southeast Asia, complete with a beautiful lake covered in lotus flowers.

A nightmare for the claustrophobic lies hidden in Southeast Asia.

The lavish temple of the Cao Dai religion that includes Buddha, Mohammed, Joan of Arc, and Victor Hugo.

More than 200 statues filled with cryptic symbols give this park spot an aura of horror vacui fantasy.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.