Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.

This titanic steel chain linking two buildings was installed without permission but instantly beloved.

This psychedelic tromp l'oeil seems to be beckoning drivers to crash into a wall.

Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.

A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.

A historic covered bridge, only one of two remaining in North Carolina.

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

A psychological self-portrait in the form of a giant, segmented head.

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

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

A six-foot pair of socks hangs from a drawer of the world's largest bureau.

Art museum based around the collections accumulated over 58 years by one eccentric thrift store owner.

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.

The humble horn finally finds a place in the sun.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.

An eerily abandoned stone tower is all that remains of a demolished dam on Cape Fear River.

A curious blend of taxidermy, antique tools, creationism, and a purported antediluvian rock.

The antique barns in Cameron are not painted with your grandfather's Mail Pouch Tobacco murals.