An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

A 56-foot tall statue of the god of fire looks out over Birmingham, Alabama.

An exquisite grouping of structures made from 10 tons of invasive saplings.

This failed condo development was reborn as a street art hub.

This eclectic Austin curiosity shop is home to all things strange and unusual.

A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.

DIY collection of eclectic holdings.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

A local tree surgeon has created a whimsical walk full of carved tree stumps near Scotland's Loch Lomond.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

These azure waters were thought to lead to the Mayan Underworld.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.

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

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

This legendary "evil" doll has been haunting the citizens of Key West for over 100 years.

This neon blue river gets its color from a unique mix of bacteria and volcano minerals.

These mysterious ancient stone spheres were created by a civilization lost to time and are now mostly lawn ornaments.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

This natural Icelandic fissure allows divers to swim right between two volatile tectonic plates.