Celebrating the transformation of trash into objects of beauty.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.

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

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

The world's largest military aircraft cemetery.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

These strikingly barren, rolling red hills were caused by bad farming practices.

A quarter mile off the coastal tip of Maine you'll find the "Beloved Island" of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

The century-old plant starred as the villainous clown's lair in the miniseries based on Stephen King's "It."

This Quebec estate is home to the elaborate gardens of a self-taught horticulturist.

This three-chambered cave is the only protected natural bat hibernaculum in Quebec.

Surprisingly delicious Asian-style hot dogs.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

The remains of a Canadian train crash are now mouldering beneath layers of rust and graffiti.

Railways may have forged this quintet of lovely tunnels, but now they are open to hikers.

This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.

Neon signs that grace the windows of Bergdorf Goodman's and Tiffany & Co. come from this studio in Brooklyn.