This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.

The 10-foot-wide Long Beach home was built on a dare.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

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

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."

The smallest Mexican land grant in California was given, and then taken from, a 19th-century teacher and nurse.

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

One man's quest for the ultimate road trip vehicle.

One of the largest helium balloons in the U.S. is a 112-foot ginormous orange.

Deadly airliner crash preserved for those willing to climb and pay respects.

The neon signs from Las Vegas' past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

An abandoned boat that's been stranded mysteriously for decades.

The freeway that never was.

These cinderblock farmhouses were actually World War II radar stations in disguise.

Room 32 of the Alta Cienega Motel has grown into a shrine to the Lizard King.

This beautiful ridge-top trail is dotted by tiny homes apparently built by a group of itinerant fairies.

The only parking meter in the entire town, it is surrounded by 100 free spaces.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

Hand-crafted tributes to a stray cat named "Room 8" now cover this LA elementary school.

The Giant Lemon of Lemon Grove.

This mysterious series of teeny guerrilla installations sheds a whimsical light on street art in Oakland.