Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

A futuristic temple of light uses prisms and rainbows to create an atmosphere of peace.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

Proceeds from this colorful teahouse in a historic Atlanta neighborhood directly fund women’s education in northeast India.

Piano-making empire filled with 200-year-old steam machines still churning out 1,000 instruments a year.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

An abandoned observatory in the middle of the Illinois prairie.

This sprawling mini-golf empire is an impressive testament to a disappearing attraction.

Grand opera on a miniature scale.

First known as the "Sample House," this construction mash-up was meant to be a living catalogue of building styles.

Take a break from all the boring business of death at this funeral home mini-golf course.

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

Vikings and Evangelicals have both had a hand in this replica medieval church.

Summer in the "Turtle Racing Capital of the World" means rousing weekly reptile races.