Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

An inconspicuous footbridge beloved by San Diego locals.

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

An ultra-modern vista that has been featured in so many films the house is a celebrity in its own right.

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.

This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.

Amazing pre-Civil War ruins alongside a shallow, rocky river that hosts beautiful (but endangered) lilies.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

Symbolic attempt to overcome the issues of life.

Their motto is, "We've been bonkers for hats even longer than you have!"

This psychedelic tourist trap is a leisurely descent into madness.

A couple turned their front yard into an artistic masterpiece.

An architect in Aspen used psychedelics as his muse while building this mushroom masterpiece.

360-degree virtual reality chamber physically immerses scientists into their data.

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

Have fun at the world's first Buddhist waterslide park.

The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

A magically clear, blue river that seems to spring from nowhere.