The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

Keeping Ballard's heritage alive with delicious, lightly battered Alaskan wild cod.

This metallic stampede sits frozen on a Washington ridge yet the artist's vision is still incomplete.

This super-sized skillet is a replica of a usable giant pan where a woman once skated on bacon.

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

Home of Jake the Alligator Man, the mummified remains of a cigar smoking, cross-dressing celebrity of the Northwestern coast.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

The mayor made the declaration in 2004.

High in the Rockies the third largest statue in the U.S. opens her welcoming arms, and lights up the night sky.

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

Hundreds of trees made from glass bottles make up this forest on Route 66.

A statue commemorate Tommie Smith and John Carlos's brave protest at the 1968 Olympics, a watershed moment for civil rights.

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

The stately birthplace of California's statehood.

An old whaling station now serves to give the public a look at the commercial whaling industry, no longer a part of Monterey's economy.