A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.

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

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

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

One artist's love letter to his city and its citizens plays out across dozens of bright murals painted on the sides of decrepit buildings.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

Acres of natural wonders left behind by a socialite-turned-gardener.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

An eclectic trailer park retreat in the middle of the California desert.

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

When Azorean green tea meets volcanic hot springs water, a luminous brew is born.

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.