A gregarious Ohio resident has been building his whimsical temple to peace for decades.

A miniature world of concrete and stone in Springfield, Ohio.

This Czar-funded, onion-domed, lavishly muraled Orthodox Church played a starring role in "The Deer Hunter."

An obsolete, vanishing traffic device warns Cincinnati drivers away from middle-of-the-road obstructions.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

Must form and function forever remain at odds? Not if the Florida Department of Transportation has its way.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

A memorial to legendary newsman, publisher, and owner of La Gaceta, the only trilingual newspaper in the U.S.

This grand Spanish-Cuban restaurant has been serving customers for more than a century.

Step back into the glory days of Florida's nascent tourism industry at this Gilded Age palace.

A tiny, unassuming park in Tampa that belongs to the Republic of Cuba.

A gleaming white tower in ornate Indian style soars above the low-slung bungalows of north Tampa.

Though illegal, city officials have made an exception for this work of art.

This Buddhist temple is home to a number of towering statues spread over a peaceful wooded park.

A trek through the solar system here on earth.

Four metal statues of massive animal penises stand outside the university's Animal Sciences building.

Over 12,500 words are scrawled across each room of this historic plantation house and no one knows why.

This Florida sinkhole hides a rainforest-like micro-environment in its depths.

Now abandoned, the first public health hospital in the U.S. saw more than one million immigrants from around the world.

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

These markers are used to document elevation changes around the famed dam.

A historic landmark and museum filled with curious objects representing the history of Key West.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

The park is home to the United States's only still-operating Dutch windmill.