New Orleans, Louisiana
Wooden Quilt Doors
An artist weaves "wooden quilts" with scraps salvaged from his Katrina-damaged home in Tremé.
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New Orleans, Louisiana
An artist weaves "wooden quilts" with scraps salvaged from his Katrina-damaged home in Tremé.
Lampasas, Texas
A spur fit for a giant sits just off Highway 281 in Texas.
Lake Charles, Louisiana
This creepy, yet oddly beautiful cemetery is home to one of the founding fathers of Lake Charles.
Waco, Texas
Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.
Glen Rose, Texas
Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.
San Francisco, California
A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.
San Francisco, California
San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.
San Francisco, California
Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.
San Francisco, California
A shining, cold, black organ lies in San Francisco's financial district.
San Francisco, California
One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.
Austin, Texas
A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.
Austin, Texas
Austin’s local mountain isn’t really a mountain at all.
Cedar Creek, Texas
A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.
Roswell, New Mexico
A blacklight journey through a celestial art exhibit.
Roswell, New Mexico
This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.
Roswell, New Mexico
A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.
Indio, California
A giant knight, sex education, date shakes, and Jesus coexist happily in this Coachella Valley desert oasis.
Albany, California
An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."
San Francisco, California
Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.
San Francisco, California
Art from the latest counter-culture; kids who dye their hair blue and believe the future will be a post-apocalyptic water world.
San Francisco, California
In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.
Berkeley, California
The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.
Berkeley, California
This subtle Berkeley paving stone actually marks off a lawless tube of air that extends into space.
Stanford, California
A sudden forest of traditional Papua New Guinean art works is hidden in a corner of Stanford University.