San Antonio, Texas
Giant Hog Stand
This big empty pig is a nostalgic throwback to mid-20th-century Texas barbecue.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
San Antonio, Texas
This big empty pig is a nostalgic throwback to mid-20th-century Texas barbecue.
Whistler, British Columbia
Home inspired by the crystal rock formation of the Emerald Estates.
Qualicum Beach, British Columbia
Sleep snuggled in a sphere suspended atop the forest canopy of Vancouver Island.
Coquitlam, British Columbia
Historic psychiatric asylum and most-filmed location in the Great White North.
Sanca, British Columbia
This house was largely built out of hundreds of thousands of discarded glass embalming fluid bottles.
Ransom Canyon, Texas
A wacky, UFO-shaped house in a suburban neighborhood.
Seattle, Washington
A Boeing mechanic and his wife leave a whimsical, stone sculptured garden as their legacy.
Wallace, Idaho
A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.
Lamar, Colorado
Once named the “world’s oldest gas station” due to its unusual construction material.
Tacoma, Washington
Tacoma’s 25-foot coffee pot music spot has served up over 80 years of concrete kitsch.
Pullman, Washington
A home made entirely from scrapped, reclaimed and recycled material in Whitman County, Washington.
Zillah, Washington
Perhaps the world's only gas station inspired by a political scandal.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.
Cottonwood, Idaho
Sweet Willy, at 30 feet tall, is the world's biggest beagle.
Denver, Colorado
The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.
Valentine, Texas
A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.
Leadville, Colorado
This 19th-century house museum features a horse-drawn hearse and other antique oddities.
El Prado, New Mexico
These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.
Aspen, Colorado
An architect in Aspen used psychedelics as his muse while building this mushroom masterpiece.
Redmond, Oregon
Bridges, terraces, and replicas of historic structures all built of rock and petrified wood by one man.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
It's easy to see why this eclectic architectural wonder has been dubbed the "Spaceship House."
Salt Lake City, Utah
A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.
Eureka, California
Commonly referred to as the most photographed Victorian home in the United States.
Grass Valley, California
The Empire Mine is "one of the oldest, largest, deepest, longest and richest gold mines in California."