Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

Austin’s local mountain isn’t really a mountain at all.

Some islands... they come, they go, especially on Lake Travis.

This house proudly displays an interactive and continuously changing exhibit of lawn flamingos.

Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million Mexican free-tail bats.

The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.

This little dolphin is the first monument dedicated to the LGBTQ+ community in the southern United States.

This vintage theme park is peak Christmas kitsch—and it's open all summer.

Meet Rita the Rock Planter, one of Danish sculptor Thomas Dambo's enormous wooden trolls.

These decaying bridges 1,000 feet high are a reminder of the skill it took to cross the Colorado Rockies by rail.

Paleoamericans built these ancient walls high in the Colorado Rockies as part of an extensive hunting system.

Take a dip in the world's largest mineral hot springs pool.

This Texas home and garden was the masterpiece of a British portrait painter.

The longest floating boardwalk in the United States.

A spur fit for a giant sits just off Highway 281 in Texas.

An immense cave that has served as an outlaw's treasure trove, an underground dance hall, a nuclear fallout shelter, and much more.

A community-funded monument to kindness in the face of life's difficulties.

This big empty pig is a nostalgic throwback to mid-20th-century Texas barbecue.

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

A fictional Coupe DeVille built by hand and gifted to the Man in Black himself.

An engraved boulder marks the spot where Patsy Cline's life ended in a plane crash.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.