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This hollowed salt dome is the largest oil storage facility in the world, hoarding 250 million barrels of crude oil.

This historical air terminal in Houston is slowly becoming an aviation museum dedicated to the city's aeronautical history.

Houston’s oldest continuously-operating Tex-Mex restaurant has been a community hub since 1941.

This South-by-South-Asian restaurant serves up Indian-spiced Southern fried chicken and a Desi-style pastrami.

Originally brought to Texas by Czech settlers, these sweet and savory pastries are an essential local breakfast staple.

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

A health museum containing a 27’’½-foot intestine.

This seaworthy collection was sparked by one man's passion for sailing.

Tune into an alternate universe at this immersive art installation.

The largest underground pedestrian tunnel system in the U.S. mostly caters to the people working in the offices above, but provides a great, air-conditioned way to traverse the city.

A 400-year-old live oak tree with a fictitiously morbid past.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

After emancipation, former slaves paved the roads of their newly built settlement with these bricks.

One of the 20th century’s most famous businessmen is buried in Houston’s most prestigious cemetery.

Look no further than this local institution for the best East Texas–style barbecue.

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

A research lab and hands-on museum where visitors can experiment with retro technology.

See 150 million-year-old dinosaur tracks and bones dating back to the Jurassic period.

This massive home was constructed by one of the greatest conservationists in Colorado history.

In the middle of a suburban Denver neighborhood is a cave that once provided solace for a prominent Ute chief and his family.

A prehistoric rock shelter that's literally in someone's backyard.

This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.

This gallery is home to everything from antiques, to ancient tribal masks.

In a beautiful open space on the north side of the Palmer Divide sits one solitary 19th-century gravestone in a copse of trees.