Memphis, Tennessee
The Jungle Room at Graceland
Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.
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Memphis, Tennessee
Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Behind the Cowboy Hall of Fame is a burial ground for good horses and a famed rodeo bull.
Zavalla, Texas
The 19th-century ruins hide deep in an overgrown forest.
Murfreesboro, Arkansas
The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.
Shreveport, Louisiana
One of the largest publicly funded mural in the country is one city's love letter to itself.
Huntsville, Texas
The world's tallest statue of an American hero.
Llano, Texas
This grimly-titled Texas cemetery is all that remains of a Wild West settlement with possibly the worst name.
Hugo, Oklahoma
Circus cemetery for all the “showmen under God’s big top.”
Paris, Texas
In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.
Lindale, Texas
Park filled with machinery that drove the southern agriculture and oil industries forward.
Wichita Falls, Texas
World's smallest skyscraper, the product of a remarkable con.
Waco, Texas
Official museum, hall of fame, and repository of the Texas Rangers.
Waco, Texas
Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.
Mineral Wells, Texas
Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.
Mineral Wells, Texas
Decaying military base deactivated in the 70s is now visited by urban explorers and military enthusiasts.
Italy, Texas
A starship has landed in Texas, a welcome break for weary travelers from a drab stretch of I-35.
Royse City, Texas
This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.
Waxahachie, Texas
Baptisms in troughs and post-sermon rodeos at the world's biggest cowboy church.
Fort Worth, Texas
The "world’s largest honky-tonk" also has its own indoor rodeo arena.
Fort Worth, Texas
Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.
Dallas, Texas
A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.
Irving, Texas
This strategically-placed fountain creates the magnificent illusion of mustangs galloping across a river.
Dallas, Texas
A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.
Dallas, Texas
This sculpture of a bowler hat is complemented by a matching umbrella a few blocks away.