This tiny, hurricane-resistant house in Galveston is one of the city's most notable architectural oddities.

The deadly but beautiful ornamental oleander was planted all over the island of Galveston after the hurricane of 1900.

A decaying concrete oil tanker served as a disposal location for bootleg hootch.

This eight-mile stretch of road gets its name from a local legend about a lost soul searching for his head.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

Artist James Turrell's ode to dawn and dusk on the campus of Rice University.

A curious statue fit for a mad tea party.

This small park features a monumental fountain wall, providing a great photo opportunity in the middle of Houston.

An unrealized Taoist palace left abandoned in a Houston suburb.

Spectacular mineral formations fill these caves, which have been used for everything from smoking meat to stashing illicit liquor.

An impressive bridge over a ravine also served as an aqueduct.

The long-lost final resting place of an accused witch.

Plans for this peninsula included houses, the United Nations Headquarters, and a nuclear power plant. When none of them worked out, it became an expansive park.

This monument gives insight into how lost children were found in Edo-period Tokyo.

For over a century, it has been a tradition to raise a flag at the top of this 450-foot sandstone pillar on the 4th of July.

This rock formation above the Wabash River is part of an ancient coral reef.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the Harry Potter films.