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

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

This giant bronze Buddha, the third largest in Japan, is the last in an ill-fated series of statues.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

A bomb shelter and some fireplaces are all that remain of the house Fred Roberts tried so hard to keep standing.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

Bug-devouring flora are the stars of a special wing of the glass conservatory.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

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

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high power conical Tesla Coil.

A bronze statue dating back as far as 1252, still has remnants of gold on its right cheek from ancient gilding.

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

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

The magic's in the hole!

An alley covered with 20 years of bubble gum.

The headquarters of the Mahanikai school of Buddhism, Thailand's largest monastic order.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

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