Giant heads occasionally litter the industrial Houston neighborhood where sculptor David Adickes has his studio.

Once seen as a bit of an eyesore, this sculpture has become a staple of downtown Houston.

A relic of the Cold War in Chicago.

Urban explorers embraced America's now demolished first suburban mall, south of Chicago.

The NBA player's elaborate former home is now a ghost of its old glory.

A sprawling outdoor museum filled with larger-than-life works of art.

This huge repository of local history housed in an old J.C.Penney's is home to the largest model train set in Southeast Texas.

A curious statue fit for a mad tea party.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

A synth musician's paradise at the heart of a community responsible for the soundtrack to 'Stranger Things.'

This unassuming North Austin neighborhood was built to test the novel idea of home air conditioning.

This gas station offers wine tastings and craft beer.

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

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

Site of the first pathological and bacteriological research facility in the United States.

The world’s largest collection of Tiffany glass sits in a warehouse in Queens.

A unique zoological park home to over 30 species of wild cats, both big and small.

A newspaper editor turned this abandoned island into a tortoise nature preserve that's now the world's smallest national park.

The world's largest carnivore sanctuary is home to over 450 meat-eating rescues.

An abandoned Cold War missile radar site.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

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

The first (but not only) upside-down house in Germany.

"Dallas’s pretty much only carnivorous plant gallery."