A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

Artist Jack Pierson made this surreal sculpture in honor of Wonder Valley, a countercultural community on edge of civilization.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

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

If Myrtle Beach is the mini golf capital of the world, this is its crowning glory.

Once the most flame resistant building in the country, the South Carolina Historical Society building was almost burnt down in a fire.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

Thirteen pastel palaces in downtown Charleston add a gorgeous splash of color to the city.

A park where you can watch the highway zoom past.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

This memorial to the Mercury Seven astronaut stands at the site of his former elementary school.

An abandoned 1970s theme park that has been turned into a space for waterfront walking.

This massive, ancient stone was disassembled and then put back together again.

A collection of more than 12,000 shoes, displayed in a building shaped like a shoebox.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

An early-19th-century hotel with a past that is steeped in the Civil War.

This early 20th-century former train station’s unusual roof shape earned it a rather witchy name.

Take a dip in the world's largest mineral hot springs pool.

This working class sculpture pounds his hammer all the livelong day.

These elusive, isolated rodents evolved into a distinct, locally iconic subspecies.

This giant steer-skull edifice refuses to die.

Isak Heartstone, a 15-foot wooden troll made out of recycled materials.

This extinct volcano rises above Edinburgh and is special for its panoramic views over the city.