An experimental forest at the foreground of arboreal science is also the canary in the coal mine for climate change.

This university transit system is a 1970's vision of the future.

Made of giant chains and hung with shackles, this iron cross honors those unknowns who perished under American slavery.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

The most unique castle in all of Southern California, entirely constructed from repurposed materials.

Open-air museum with an elaborate sculpture garden, stretching for over 70,000 square-meters.

Now abandoned, this East Austin school for the disabled began as the "State Colony for the Feeble-minded."

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

The only museum dedicated to the history of the "Magic Lantern," a medieval slide projector.

The language and heritage of a nearly forgotten culture can still be explored in this Southern enclave.

Eastern Canada's ocean playground.

This Canadian island is a veritable garden of decay with countless abandoned structures dotting the landscape.

Minimalist modern art on a repurposed military base in rural Texas.

One artist's yard is full of shining, whirling kinetic sculptures that look like pure steel psychedelia.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

This stretch of Canadian road was named after a nickname that stuck so hard the city had to keep it.

Some islands... they come, they go, especially on Lake Travis.

This rough experimental house was created by flooding a dirt hill with concrete.

A sudden forest of traditional Papua New Guinean art works is hidden in a corner of Stanford University.

The world's northernmost flowers cling tenuously to life on desolate Kaffeklubben Island.

This collection of unique liquids allows visitors to wander the waters of Iceland's glaciers.

The house that Frank Lloyd Wright "(shook) out of his sleeve at will" at the age of 86.

The highest point in Texas is capped by a big silver pyramid.

Living trees form the structure of an open-air palace.