Home to items never before seen by the public.

The remains of Martha, the last known passenger pigeon, serve as a tool to educate about conservation.

A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

Minimalist modern art on a repurposed military base in rural Texas.

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

This institution collects the history of burlesque dancing with a titillating collection of ephemera and pasties.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

Austin’s nonprofit-run graffiti park where street art is meant to be painted over.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.