Gaze upon chocolate sculptures depicting everything from chariot races to Gaudí's famous church at this shrine to sweets.

These secluded and abandoned anti-aircraft defenses have become one the most scenic viewpoints in Barcelona.

Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.

A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.

This semi-secret storybook hedge maze is also the oldest garden in the city.

One of Antoni Gaudí's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.

A decaying concrete oil tanker served as a disposal location for bootleg hootch.

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

255 feet of suds, scrubbers, and blow dryers.

Minimalist modern art on a repurposed military base in rural Texas.

An unrealized Taoist palace left abandoned in a Houston suburb.

Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million Mexican free-tail bats.

One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.

This eclectic Austin curiosity shop is home to all things strange and unusual.

A serene temple with stunning stained glass hides in downtown Dallas.

Twenty churches beautifully painted by 19th-century Czech and German immigrants in Texas.

A former electrical substation is now home to an eccentric junk art masterpiece.

The summer home of the largest colony of bats in the world.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

Visitors are welcome to enter this lush Key West sanctuary to entertain its plethora of rescued parrots.