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The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

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

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

Tucked away down this Baytown alley exists a one-of-a-kind art exhibit of technicolor umbrellas.

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

A little bit Wonkatania, a little bit pink elephant.

There is an unmarked red button hidden over Houston's Buffalo Bayou that is just begging to pushed...

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

At the "Garage Mahal" in Houston, car culture is about more than just driving.

A quirky collection of old chairs fills a random vacant lot in suburban Texas.

A master plumber has turned his love of art and toilets into a folk museum that's not taking the piss.

This collection of bronze hands comes from astronauts, presidents, baseball greats, and more.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

Scale replica of China's ancient terracotta tomb warriors and Forbidden City are the side project of an eccentric millionaire.

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.