This popular park is home to a sea serpent sculpture that now overshadows the twisted history of its creation.

Bone marrow-loaded birria with handmade corn tortillas—need we say more?

An ode to iconic Nashville locations.

This curious fresh and salt water lake holds a secret that draws in deep divers from around the world.

This edible park is open to any and all foragers.

This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.

At this deceptively beautiful beach, nothing is what it seems.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

A vast city of the dead, where the deceased outnumber the living by more than a million.

A museum dedicated to a sea that should have never been.

An off-grid art installation that encourages its visitors to imagine a world without waste.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.

Vintage furniture and art share space with all manner of collectibles at this quirky shop in Bangkok.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

One of few lasting examples of the brief octagon craze that developed into folly.

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.