South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

Locals dubbed it the "Owl Building" because of its bird-like appearance.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.

A mythical chimera first sculpted in 1936 as a mix of the main animals of Texas livestock.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

The world's tallest statue of an American hero.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

Small plaque marks the spot, but the true center is located about half a mile away on a private pig farm.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

Granting the right of way to ships over surface traffic since 1917.

The flock of plastic poultry is an ode to the classic comedy staple.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.