The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

A $100,000 tumbleweed decorates an Arizona park and ride that got its priorities a bit tangled.

This giant steer-skull edifice refuses to die.

The world's largest rose bush has literally outgrown the pioneer museum it was planted behind.

What is the Thing?

The world's largest military aircraft cemetery.

An abandoned Cold War missile radar site.

Magical-looking cottages that inspired one of the most famous animated films ever.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

The largest drain hole in the world.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.

Peek through the gates at this oasis from the city, full of Old English charm.

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause.