At this bohemian accommodation, guests who dream of joining the circus can spend the night in themed wagons.

This sculpture is dedicated to Minnesota natives who served in combat.

These molds for fiberglass statues have formed an eerie, accidental sculpture park.

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

Three acres of mythology-inspired sculptures are visible from the highway.

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

Home to the abandoned Tioronda Hat Works Factory, this park is a combination of woodlands and marshlands.

This Colorado gallery is primarily for cars, but its collection also includes quilts, pottery, and more.

A 40-foot waterfall flows into this unique natural swimming hole.

Home to a forest of whimsical pygmy Coast live oak.

In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

One man's ambition created this psychedelic log home.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

It's safe—and permitted—to walk across these twin natural sandstone arches.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

The first lookout in Yosemite.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.