A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

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

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

An oddities shop packed with twisted treasures inspired by Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe.

A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.

A recreated Stonehenge stands in a country field, complete with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries.

A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

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

Two graffiti towers stand like ghosts of Vancouver's World War II-era defensive outpost.

This rare example of Vancouver's Victorian past was the home of one of the city's first bookbinders.

The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

At just six feet two inches deep, it is said by Guiness and Ripley to be the world’s narrowest freestanding office building.

The collection of signage remembers the midcentury pushback against the new neon light.

Surprisingly Delicious Asian-Style Hot Dogs.

This conservatory allows a little bit of the tropics to thrive in the middle of a major Canadian city.