Once the product of an inexplicable gold strike, this ghost town is now home to one man and his love of classic machines.

A mysterious "wedding cake" castle in the middle of the urban desert.

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.

An Arizona museum with a collection of pharmaceutical oddities, including a jar of a gangster's chewed gum.

In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.

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Some of the tallest ancient American ruins continue to inspire awe and curiosity.

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

The world's largest rose bush has literally outgrown the pioneer museum it was planted behind.

In this small Phoenix taxidermy emporium, you can find everything from a squid in a jar to a freeze-dried toad.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

The fading, forgotten remains of a once bright and booming factory.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

This stunning limestone waterfall is the highest in Estonia.

This massive stone and steel monument remembers a century-old battle that cost thousands of lives and nearly destroyed the city.

A decaying, yet still functioning, work of communist architecture.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.