This giant pocket watch is the third iteration of a local landmark that has been standing just off the Santa Fe Plaza for over 100 years.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

A futuristic temple of light uses prisms and rainbows to create an atmosphere of peace.

The oldest active juke joint in the state sustains a niche school of blues guitar.

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

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

This improbable contraption was passed down through five generations of industrious Tennesseans.

In what is rumored to be an intentional act of spite, this memorial almost completely obscures the nearby grave of a senior officer.

The rogue roots are gradually consuming some of the historic marble grave markers.

The narrowest house in America is seven feet of pure spite.

This last stalwart of the now-forgotten feminist restaurant movement has been serving food in an activist atmosphere since 1977.

Inside this wonderland of weird, visitors are treated to a collection ranging from skeletons to haunted artifacts.

A journey through a curious collection of oddities and wonder.

What is the Thing?

Neal Cassady may still have an open tab at one of Denver's oldest watering holes.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

"Gnome Chomsky" was once the largest gnome in the world, but is now simply tall for his kind.

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

An intricately designed junk art house with four extravagant junk art cars hidden in the suburbs.

A roadside attraction filled with an astounding array of gloriously wacky vehicles.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

Outside the Missouri Quilt Museum, this large spool has more than one million yards of thread—and counting.

How did a massive marine arthropod find its way to landlocked Ohio?