When the Austin Dam failed it destroyed much of Austin...and then it failed again.

A series of modernist treehouse hotel rooms grace the outskirts of an Arctic forest.

Hang with reindeer at this 400-year-old Sámi market.

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

The ruins of a 19th-century mill are hidden along a greenway in a prominent Charlotte neighborhood.

This steam locomotive served as both an interesting static display and unique playground equipment since 1959.

A permanent outdoor art installation made up of more than 100 mushroom-shaped lights.

A year-long seasonal produce clock highlighting a variety of fruits and vegetables from across the Piedmont region.

This scented city oasis was a labor of love.

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

Colorful murals stationed throughout Charlotte bring poetry to everyone.

From golden eagles to peregrine falcons, this rehabilitation and education center is a haven for birds of prey.

143 feet of leaping muskie whose mouth can be used as a wedding venue.

One Austrian's singular yard is now preserved as a folk art garden of concrete wonders.

Before he was America’s most famous preservationist, John Muir was an ingenious mechanical inventor.

The titular fictional logger only inhabits this otherwise historically focussed museum via a piece of fiberglass kitsch.

This forgotten beach house built to look like a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece overlooks a hidden beach.

Almost half-way between the Equator and North Pole.

A restaurant and lodge in northern Wisconsin which served as a clandestine hideout for John Dillinger and featured one of the most famous botched FBI raids in history.

Whimsical sculptures dot a woodland path surrounding their creator's old summer cottage.

A roadside spring pooling in an old bathtub where anyone can stop and sip.

A former barn converted into a massive train diorama.

Tirelessly maintained by a Wisconsin man named JFK.

The remains of a enormous earthen figure of unknown origins cuts across a rural Wisconsin road.