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

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

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

A former electrical substation is now home to an eccentric junk art masterpiece.

A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.

At the "Garage Mahal" in Houston, car culture is about more than just driving.

Beer lover's can-covered house.

A Rodeo for Prisoners.

One of the longest water bridges in the world was built over a supposedly haunted swamp in Louisiana.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

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

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

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

An underground magnet for ever-changing street art.

The beauty of urban decay, hiding some dark secrets.

This massive store is home to an eccentric collection of vintage, retro, and peculiar goods.

The ruins of a cotton mill that was burned in the Civil War are still hidden in a Georgia forest.

Famous for its bio-luminescent inhabitants, known as "Dismalites" .

A stockpile of childhood lunch pails turned collectibles.

A former taxidermist has turned his old shop into a folk art mecca.