A mysterious and terrifying public art goblin seemingly meant to inspire local legend.

The world's only museum devoted solely to the art and collection of action figures.

A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.

A starship has landed in Texas, a welcome break for weary travelers from a drab stretch of I-35.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

A master plumber has turned his love of art and toilets into a folk museum that's not taking the piss.

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

A former electrical substation is now home to an eccentric junk art masterpiece.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

This museum showcases the history and contributions of the U.S. Army to the medical industry, both on the battlefield and off.

The 40-foot-tall votive candle is the largest of its kind.

The summer home of the largest colony of bats in the world.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

Temporary Burning Man sculpture made of two 18-wheelers.

Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.

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

A whimsical antique shop with a strong air of mystery, filled with items from ages, and what feels like worlds, past.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

Depicting scenes of everyday life - and specific individuals - in Great Depression era San Francisco.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

Its buzzing collection honors vibrator history.

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.