Chandigarh, India
Nek Chand Saini’s Rock Garden
A palatial sculpture park was built illegally and in secret by a self-taught artist over 36 years.
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Chandigarh, India
A palatial sculpture park was built illegally and in secret by a self-taught artist over 36 years.
Peebles, Ohio
The largest earthwork effigy in the world.
Blythe, California
Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
An overgrown and largely forgotten cemetery lies hidden within the outskirts of Amsterdam.
Franeker, Netherlands
Home to the world's oldest functioning orrery.
Hilversum, Netherlands
A monument hidden in the woods built in 1938 as a getaway for a Dutch museum curator.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
A Dutch passageway's artistic, aquatic-themed makeover pays tribute to the capital city's famed waterways.
Bourtange, Netherlands
This beautifully designed star-shaped fort was the premier defense system of the late 1500s.
Évora, Portugal
A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.
Soriano nel Cimino, Italy
A fascinating assortment of cave dwellings, medieval ruins, and sarcophagi are being devoured by the forest.
Soriano nel Cimino, Italy
A stunning fountain depicting a mythological she-goat carved directly into the rocks on the grounds of a Renaissance palace.
Paris, France
A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.
Iceland
A winding, blood-red tunnel of hardened lava navigable by foot.
San Francisco, California
This giant head is all that remains of a once proud statue that survived an earthquake but not a fall off of a wagon.
San Francisco, California
The giant pair of sexy legs sticking out the window of this costume store have become its main draw.
San Francisco, California
This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.
Inyo County, California
"Only the devil could play golf here."
San Francisco, California
The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.
Gilroy, California
Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.
Sequoia National Park, California
Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).
Humboldt County, California
One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.
San Francisco, California
Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.
Inyo County, California
The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.
San Francisco, California
Adolph Sutro's little-known, geographically inaccurate, deprecated monument.