This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.

A forgotten sea village stands silent after hurricanes deemed it obsolete.

This nine-story building can be played like an instrument.

This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

One of the best places to see feral Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

The winter home of thousands of beautiful snow geese and sandhill cranes.

Some of the Old West's most notorious outlaws frequented this mining town.

One of the American Southwest's most extensive collections of Navajo rock art.

"I did this all while you were watching TV."

These aggressively sustainable art homes look like something out of 1970's science fiction.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

These constructed wetlands naturally filter millions of gallons of treated wastewater every day.

This kitschy curio wonderland is full of fake animals, teak tables, and a cacophony of random bric-a-brac.