A busy island at the center of the world that doesn’t actually exist.

For this chef, an active volcano is his oven.

On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

A renegade art installation in a small Vancouver park is now officially sanctioned by the City Parks Department.

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

Some 10,000 works of ancient rock art cover these volcanic basalt outcrops near the Gila River.

Known locally as "the giant head," this 14-foot LED sculpture has a photo booth in the neck where you can have a 3D picture taken and displayed.

A train ride to the middle of nowhere gives its passengers some of the most iconic views of Japan's seasons.

This former open-pit manganese mine is now a massive graffiti canvas.

The disdain for this dysfunctional dam is reflected in a giant pair of scissors painted on the concrete face.

These World War I shooting range tunnels are now haunted halls of underground graffiti accessed through the roots of a tree.

More than 25 fully functional scale replicas of famous lighthouses dot the shores of Lake Havasu.

The freeway that never was.

Eight rare Corvettes are swallowed up by a sinkhole in Kentucky's National Corvette Museum.

This historic estate on the east shore of Lake Tahoe was home to an eccentric millionaire (and his pet elephant, Mingo).

A former mining hospital is now a vibrant artistic hub.

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

The "Kill Bill Church" was transformed into a place of worship after a long Hollywood history.

Hidden beneath a lake for decades, this brutalist mine has now emerged from beneath the receding waters.

An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.

One artist’s scheme to expand museum viewing hours into the evening led to the illumination of an entire city.