Banished from town, this local jester concocted a clever return.

The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.

Inside this striking glass building, visitors can see thousands of dinosaur fossils in the positions that nature deposited them more than 150 million years ago.

The oldest continuously-operating Chinese restaurant in the United States has been in business since 1911.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

An artist weaves "wooden quilts" with scraps salvaged from his Katrina-damaged home in Tremé.

A mountaintop space observatory that is certified dark.

The portrait of a man from Japan who sent weekly letters to a Dutch hotel he never visited.

One of Frank Lloyd Wright's greatest—and favorite—architectural masterpieces was almost lost.

A forsaken wonder in the middle of the East Side neighborhood.

Ruins of a once-prized railroad station in New York.

This landmark jazz venue is the oldest continuously running African-American club in the United States.

It took an artist 20 years to create this sprawling sculpture garden honoring the area's ancient inhabitants.

A gigantic sculpture garden is packed with innovative oddities.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

A curious art park at the geographic center of Europe is home to 3,000 television sets and other wonders.

An open-air museum in a mountain valley features works designed to blend in with—and disintegrate back into—their natural surroundings.

An abandoned quarry hides an open-air gallery of huge sculptures, some made from the rubble of 9/11.

A shockingly detailed small scale recreation of the temples of Abu Simbel.

The longest navigable underground river in the United States is home to countless blind and albino animals.

A big museum full of little worlds.

The superstar of Cold War nuclear bunkers has been featured in countless films but is now barely operational.

This natural rock formation features seemingly unnatural vertical ridges that have been blamed on elves.

An abandoned fish-shaped drive-in gets a second life as a restaurant.