A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the "Golden Age" of the American automobile.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

This little dolphin is the first monument dedicated to the LGBTQ+ community in the southern United States.

The deadly but beautiful ornamental oleander was planted all over the island of Galveston after the hurricane of 1900.

This tiny, hurricane-resistant house in Galveston is one of the city's most notable architectural oddities.

Artist James Turrell's ode to dawn and dusk on the campus of Rice University.

An unrealized Taoist palace left abandoned in a Houston suburb.

Beer lover's can-covered house.

A park filled with vibrant mosaics created by more than 300 folk artists.

A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.

A Collegiate Gothic quadrangle that surrounds an 18th century secondary school whose financing came from the likes of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, among others.

This unique house, the only one of its kind in Brooklyn, was built as part of a real estate developer's showcase.

The oldest dim sum restaurant in the United States is a nostalgic jewel.

This contorting sculpture is the tallest in San Francisco.

Over a century old, this restored Victorian building is surrounded by a lush garden filled with rare palms.

Built in 1906, this unique building was the first Hindu temple in the United States.

San Francisco’s century-old Christmas Tree.

This eatery transports diners to a place that no longer exists: East Germany.

Floating man-made island and upscale restaurant.

This Japanese treats shop may have been the first business to mass-produce fortune cookies in the United States.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

The first AIDS memorial chapel in San Francisco and one of only a few in the U.S.

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.

A garden oasis filled with flowers mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare.