Zavalla, Texas
Aldridge Sawmill
The 19th-century ruins hide deep in an overgrown forest.
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Zavalla, Texas
The 19th-century ruins hide deep in an overgrown forest.
Mineral Wells, Texas
Decaying military base deactivated in the 70s is now visited by urban explorers and military enthusiasts.
El Paso, Texas
Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.
San Antonio, Texas
Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.
Aurora, Texas
This small town Texas cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.
Bellville, Texas
A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.
Royse City, Texas
This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.
Austin, Texas
Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.
Hot Springs, Arkansas
This Arkansas town is known for its gangster history, its healing waters, and now its brews.
Holly Grove, Arkansas
A short boardwalk through a swamp leads to the spot from which the Louisiana Purchase was surveyed.
Paragould, Arkansas
This Lady Liberty is the oldest replica of its kind outside the state of New York.
Gurdon, Arkansas
The strange and snarky traditions of the lumber industry's fraternal order began with five men waiting for a train here in Arkansas.
Mammoth Spring, Arkansas
Life-size figures portray depot attendants, train crew, and passengers frozen in time at the oldest railroad station in Arkansas.
Little Rock, Arkansas
A beautiful South Korean gate and garden in Little Rock honors American Taekwondo.
Heber Springs, Arkansas
A wild trout fishery in Arkansas.
Little Rock, Arkansas
Where animatronic singing fish go to retire.
Damascus, Arkansas
This historic bridge has weathered fires and floods and still stands, now abandoned, where it has stood since 1874.
Gurdon, Arkansas
A mysterious light floating in the trees of Arkansas may be a piezoelectric effect.
Natchitoches, Louisiana
A remarkably futuristic building sits in the oldest town in Louisiana.
New Orleans, Louisiana
This quaint museum in a long-running workshop is dedicated to a fixture in New Orleans lighting.
Kentwood, Louisiana
A small town museum honors local WWII veterans and the queen of pop who put it on the map.
St. Francisville, Louisiana
Every year, a Louisiana town remembers a brief Civil War truce inspired by Masonic brotherhood.
New Iberia, Louisiana
A miscalculation turns a very shallow freshwater lake into a very deep saltwater lake.
New Orleans, Louisiana
This New Orleans statue of a portly figure in a goofy hat pays homage to a classic of satirical literature.