This colorful but controversial ceiling has been likened to a 21st-century Sistine Chapel.

A series of abstract sculptures pop up from an otherworldly volcanic landscape.

The sculpture shows a water rat turning the world upside-down, landing an elephant on its head.

This lake’s emerald green waters are a spectacular sight, but it’s not a great place for a swim.

The city of Manchester quietly unveiled this tribute to a 19th-century massacre.

A 400-foot-tall tall map of Chicago makes this once-ignored building stand out.

This giant ice cream cone is the last remaining icon of a Salt Lake City staple.

This top secret Chinese military megaproject is the world’s largest human-made tunnel structure.

An abandoned colonial French prison notorious for its hellish conditions.

This towering totem holds the title for the tallest in the world but only according to some.

Bird dung painted this huge boulder which in turn inspired the name of a city.

A giant sculpture dedicated to a staple of South Bend food culture.

Not far from Mount Rainer, an iron wonderland claims the landscape.

An annual celebration of the infamous, unsolved skyjacking.

A beautiful footbridge with over 2,000 glass sculptures along the walls and ceiling.

Perhaps the world's only gas station inspired by a political scandal.

One artist's yard is full of shining, whirling kinetic sculptures that look like pure steel psychedelia.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.

An American city stranded at the tip of a Canadian peninsula where strict adherence to the "49th parallel rule" became problematic.

Tacoma’s 25-foot coffee pot music spot has served up over 80 years of concrete kitsch.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.