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

An urban forest overtakes what was the greatest failure of utopic urban housing.

When Joseph Marconnott died, he had a unique final wish: to be mummified and put on display.

This spot in St. Louis, marked with a simple sign, has seen more pro baseball than just about anywhere else in the world.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

This largely forgotten piece of Cold War history stands hidden in the woods just north of the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

One of the few existing, fully functional Showbiz Pizza animatronic shows.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

This botanical garden has been nicknamed "Alabama's Little Corner of Greece."

Since it formed millions of years ago, this cave system has been a sacred burial ground, a Prohibition-era speakeasy, and the center of an amusement park.

One of almost 200 confirmed impact craters in the entire world, untouched for tens of millions of years.

The terrified face of Henry Wells is etched on this garret window.

These ruins are all that's left of the former Alabama State Capitol.

A former taxidermist has turned his old shop into a folk art mecca.

One person's lost luggage is another person's treasure.

This fountain was commissioned by a mother grieving over her son's passing.

In 1911 this intersection was called "the heaviest corner in the South," and outlandish claim that only grew wilder over the years.

See the sky in a new way through this art installation.

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

A short boardwalk through a swamp leads to the spot from which the Louisiana Purchase was surveyed.

Everything in this miniature world was handmade from matches, paperclips, wires, tin cans, and other everyday objects.

Where animatronic singing fish go to retire.

A mysterious light floating in the trees of Arkansas may be a piezoelectric effect.

This Florida museum dedicated to western artwork is entered through an artificial canyon with imported sandstone.