Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.

This Costa Rican topiary park is a surreal garden of unearthly delights.

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

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.

This tall and trim architectural oddity is one of the skinniest buildings in San Francisco.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

Gnomes have their very own bonsai-landscaped settlement on a university campus.

A natural dome made of volcanic glass in Inyo National Forest.

This garden is very fertile.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

A herd of 150 bison live on California's Santa Catalina Island and are at the heart of an ongoing debate between environmental protection and economic expansion.

An alley covered with 20 years of bubble gum.

A working model of the entire San Francisco Bay and much of the Sacramento River Delta, complete with regular tides that change every 14 minutes.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."

340 bicycles, 65 feet high.

This whimsical seashell-shaped place of worship was designed to blend into its surroundings.

This Peruvian canyon is filled with geometric salt pools that have been being harvested since the Incan empire.

These steeply terraced ruins are a stop along the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu.

If you’ve ever seen a picture of Machu Picchu, then you’ve seen a picture of Huayna Picchu—you just didn’t realize it.

This rare triple-jurisdiction drawbridge passes through Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

Steinbeck's old stomping grounds, immortalized in Cannery Row.