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

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

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

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

This old abandoned sign flickers to announce a motel that isn't even there.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

Minimalist modern art on a repurposed military base in rural Texas.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

A giant "X" symbolizes the blood spilled from the brutal Juárez drug wars.

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

Once the most flame resistant building in the country, the South Carolina Historical Society building was almost burnt down in a fire.

An old train trestle re-imagined as an Egyptian obelisk.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

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.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.

Lighthouse-cum-columbarium where "Nor'easters" and grandma go to die.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

Mountain known by the Tillamook Tribe as "the place of the supreme deity."

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

On the Oregon coast there is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

North America's first frozen mummified remains of an ice age steppe bison, the 36,000 year-old mummy named "Blue Babe."

A collection of colorful dinosaurs hidden in an actual rainforest.