A local scoured more than 1,000 acres for stone to create his masterpiece.

One man’s vision of living among dinosaurs credits Jesus Christ as the engine of biological evolution.

The city of Rockford, Illinois is symbolically protected by a quartet of fittingly stony sentinels.

A stone marker memorializes the spot where the King broke up a street fight with a classic karate stance.

Three playfully immersive mini golf courses let you travel alongside your ball to the cup at this facility, which has been around since the 1950s.

Inside, ancient treasures. Outside, modern contradictions.

A memorial for an outsider theorist who believed that the planet is actually hollow.

This abandoned bridge is now a favorite haunt for graffiti artists.

This 15-foot former Johnny Appleseed has given up his apples for donuts and coffee.

World's largest magnetic research facility.

The bottle house obsession struck a Florida man in his retirement, and now he can't stop building.

A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.

Pensacola's UFO home has withstood many hurricanes—just as the experimental 1960s design intended.

Alabama has a fiberglass Stonehenge. With apologies to Spinal Tap, this one is full-size.

Four metal statues of massive animal penises stand outside the university's Animal Sciences building.

The world's largest occupied bat houses hold hundreds of thousands of flying mammals.

Recycled junk and fishing buoys litter the yard and facade of this bait shop cum art project.

A gleaming white tower in ornate Indian style soars above the low-slung bungalows of north Tampa.

Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.

This home is decked out like a psychedelic explosion of colors and bowling balls.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

An author's private collection of quirky travel-trinkets and oddities has become a rotating mini-museum in the window of a local bookstore.

This former factory has been transformed into a technicolor wonderland, where dozens of local artists have collaborated to create a real choose-your-own-adventure experience.

The history of the traveling carnival is remembered by this sprawling collection of vintage wagons, games, and rides.