This eclectic, mosaic-clad home includes a bamboo ping-pong loft and a "Whispermaphones" intercom.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

This eclectic Austin curiosity shop is home to all things strange and unusual.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

The highest point in Iowa, while not that impressive to mountain states, has earned its own monuments.

Inside this museum resides a boot fit for a giant.

Dakota legend claims this locally iconic pinnacle was once part of a sacred burial site that was cleaved in two.

This water tower has been a staple of the Rochester skyline since 1931.

A tribute to the twin ideals of religion and patriotism, built by a Catholic priest from rocks, glass, and innumerable found items.

The spot in the Mile-High City that's exactly 5,280 feet above sea level (at least for now).

Wall to wall taxidermy at Denver's oldest and most exotic steakhouse.

Overlooking the Colorado Convention Center is this giant sculpture made from thousands of triangles.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

America's largest man-made forest was planted in an effort to bring back the past.

When an ancient supervolcano erupted, some of Nebraska's prehistoric animals were forever preserved in ash.

A roadside collection of over-sized iron creations that are a bit more macabre than most.

One devoted couple has donated multiple recreations of Michelangelo's sculptures to this South Dakota town.

The ravine where Jesse James supposedly performed an impossible jump to evade capture.

The watery grave of an impractical idea.

This abandoned church in central Lyon is missing its front stairs.

A tiled, multi-level garden of survival in Lyon.

Lyon's "Wall of the Silk Weavers" is one of the largest murals in Europe.