A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

Come for the pizza, stay for a performance on the world's largest theater pipe organ.

Seriously good slices of Sicilian pizza lurk at the back of the Bronx's oldest enclosed market.

Personal garden filled with mosaics made of recycled garbage.

An eccentric artist's abode in this small Italian town has been transformed into a surreal temple of mosaic madness.

Mosaics created from 11 million cigar bands.

A former milk-delivery driver and his wife turn their home into a glimmering mosaic.

A mosaic-tiled house built by graveyard sweeper Raymond Isidore.

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.

One man’s religious convictions led him to build this stone castle meant to withstand an apocalypse.

A small house sits between two huge rocks, with its back to the sea.

This knick-knack-covered house (complete with a matching van) is a charming oddity in the middle of a modest downtown neighborhood.

A Victorian-style home known as the “Castle on the Hill.”

One of the U.S. Forest Service's only mansions is outfitted with a dinner table for floating food.

Whimsical artist house in the New Jersey woods.

This hospital fell into ruins after failing to act as the advocate for the mentally ill it was designed to be.

The remains of a century-old mansion that met a fiery demise years after it was deserted.

The remains of the furnace and iron works that produced the massive Hudson River Chain still stand in the woods of New York.

This old-fashioned candy shop, ice cream parlor, and diner served as the setting for one of TV's most controversial series finales.