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36.6603, -115.9947
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24.4521, 32.9284
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Kapa'a, Hawaii
Coco Palms Resort
This former luxury resort in Kaua'i is now an abandoned relic.
22.0488, -159.3358
Honolulu, Hawaii
The Queen Theater
The grand marquee of this abandoned Hawaiian theater remembers the building's elegant past.
21.2831, -157.7993
Austin, Texas
Museum of the Weird
Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.
30.2670, -97.7387
Austin, Texas
Uncommon Objects
One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.
30.2291, -97.7830
Fort Worth, Texas
Fort Worth Water Gardens
A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.
32.7477, -97.3266
Amarillo, Texas
Cadillac Ranch
A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the "Golden Age" of the American automobile.
35.1872, -101.9871
Austin, Texas
Congress Bridge Bats
Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.
30.2617, -97.7452
Houston, Texas
Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern
A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.
29.7624, -95.3764
Terlingua, Texas
Terlingua Ghost Town
An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.
29.3370, -103.5958
Waco, Texas
Waco Mammoth Site
Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.
31.6077, -97.1700
Houston, Texas
The Hobbit Café
A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.
29.7339, -95.4148
San Antonio, Texas
World's Largest Cowboy Boots
These boots are made for selfies.
29.5180, -98.4975
Denton, Texas
Goatman's Bridge
A registered historic landmark shrouded in unsettling local legends.
33.1297, -97.1060
Zavalla, Texas
Aldridge Sawmill
The 19th-century ruins hide deep in an overgrown forest.
31.0338, -94.2808
San Antonio, Texas
Alamo Cat Graves
Two small markers remember the Alamo's feline protectors.
29.4257, -98.4862
Fredericksburg, Texas
Old Tunnel Bat Colony
Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million Mexican free-tail bats.
30.1005, -98.8210
Bastrop, Texas
The Gas Station
The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.
30.0481, -97.3389
Culberson County, Texas
McKittrick Canyon
Steep canyon walls hide a forested oasis in the West Texas desert.
31.9774, -104.7523
Amarillo, Texas
'Ozymandias on the Plains'
A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.
35.1018, -101.9091
San Antonio, Texas
Grave of Pat the Horse
Soldiers honored the beloved Pat with a special grave.
29.4432, -98.4629
Irving, Texas
'Mustangs of Las Colinas'
This strategically-placed fountain creates the magnificent illusion of mustangs galloping across a river.
32.8704, -96.9378
Cleveland, Ohio
Frozen Cleveland Lighthouse
An unoccupied lighthouse encased in layers of ice from the waters of Lake Erie.
41.5090, -81.7177
Cleveland, Ohio
Steamship William G. Mather
This steamer is known as "The ship that built Cleveland."
41.5068, -81.6979
Cleveland, Ohio
World's Largest Rubber Stamp
Cleveland's giant "free" stamp is a nod to the Civil War, but was misinterpreted for years.
41.5054, -81.6925
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