An enormous goose sits atop this nest-shaped home.

The statue honors the booming birds Rothsay, Minnesota, is famous for.

These enlarged egg sculptures represent the native birds of eastern Iceland.

This five-foot-tall bronze bird is a memorial to a species that was hunted out of existence.

This Sheffield sculpture composed of 17,000 Allen keys honors both urban falcons and a furniture icon.

The moving metal works of one troubled artist can still be viewed on his front lawn... for now.

A giant poultry statue immortalizes one of Alaska's more humorous town names.

A 250-year-old timepiece-automaton adorned with golden mechanical birds, which still sing to this day.

This wondrous hideaway is suspended in a bamboo forest above a sanctuary for rescued llamas and alpacas.

A home covered with elaborate mosaic and other pieces of art.

Get past the gatekeeper's apartment and enter an elaborate hoax of a restaurant with a Masonic feel.

This restaurant offers a side of antiques, curios, and a bathroom chock full of owls.

Every dish is blessed in this basement eatery beneath a Hare Krishna temple.

Little India's hidden gem of kindness and good food.

This peaceful Sikh gurudwara serves around 50,000 free meals every day within its gilded walls.

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

A butcher shop in Minneapolis has all the meats and cheeses you’d expect from any of its kind—except that all the products are vegan.

One doctor's retirement plan included opening this award-winning Mexican-Indian eatery on the ground floor of a hospital.

Featuring a meatless buffet fit for kings, this family-owned Zurich eatery is considered the oldest vegetarian restaurant in the West.

Come for the chanting, stay for the monastical vegan buffet.

This last stalwart of the now-forgotten feminist restaurant movement has been serving food in an activist atmosphere since 1977.

An eatery within a Bay Area Buddhist temple pulls off all your favorite Vietnamese classics without the meat.

The disdain for this dysfunctional dam is reflected in a giant pair of scissors painted on the concrete face.

An abandoned observatory in the middle of the Illinois prairie.