This little blue house pokes out over the campus of UC San Diego, seven stories high.

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

A giant donut stands as a popular symbol of Los Angeles iconography.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

This magnificent Cincinnati graveyard is also a popular public park.

A piece of the iconic wall found an unlikely new home in a Vegas bathroom.

This strange example of the Egyptian Revival architecture trend now holds Mardi Gras floats.

A curiosity-seeker's paradise set inside a three-story historic school house.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Life and death are on parade at the most reliably perilous site of “the Great Migration.”

This towering volcanic plug stands out among the dramatic formations that dot this otherworldly desert valley.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

A quirky collection of old chairs fills a random vacant lot in suburban Texas.

The world's tallest statue of an American hero.

Locals dubbed it the "Owl Building" because of its bird-like appearance.

An ivy-covered arch bridge dedicated to Tejano music singer and legend Rosita Fernandez.

A registered historic landmark shrouded in unsettling local legends.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

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