The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

The last example of an innovative piece of surveying equipment now stands in its inventor's hometown.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

This former open-pit manganese mine is now a massive graffiti canvas.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

An old railroad grade built for the construction of Hoover Dam is now a recreational trail featuring several tunnels and sweeping views of Lake Mead.

A homage to the King at the hotel where he revived his career.

Experience a charming 1930's version of "infotainment."

A Norwegian-born sculptor created these soaring guardian angels at the entrance to Hoover Dam.

A giant open-air sculpture made of over 200 full-sized boats.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

An overlooked monument to the celebrity gangster who helped put the sin in Sin City.

Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.

This Costa Rican topiary park is a surreal garden of unearthly delights.

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.

This tall and trim architectural oddity is one of the skinniest buildings in San Francisco.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

Gnomes have their very own bonsai-landscaped settlement on a university campus.

A natural dome made of volcanic glass in Inyo National Forest.

This garden is very fertile.