This small park features a monumental fountain wall, providing a great photo opportunity in the middle of Houston.

These boots are made for selfies.

One of the highest points in Bexar county offers birdseye views of San Antonio and a four-story stone tower.

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

Decades of discarded bottle caps line this alleyway, a fixture of Texas A&M.

The basement bowling alley of this St. Paul dive bar is decorated with thousands of dollar bills.

This monument marks the point where Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri intersect.

A tribute to the little-known group of women who were the first ever to fly aircraft in the U.S. military.

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

This library is a reader's paradise and a plant lover's dream.

A Texas-sized secondhand bookstore features 54,000 square feet of books, music, and media.

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.

The longest floating boardwalk in the United States.

This Texas home and garden was the masterpiece of a British portrait painter.

Craggy concrete faces are hidden in the walls of this artificial cave along the San Antonio River.

The 40-foot-tall votive candle is the largest of its kind.

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

The world's only museum devoted solely to the art and collection of action figures.

What was once a summer home next to a waterfall has now become littered with graffiti and children in swimsuits.

World's smallest skyscraper, the product of a remarkable con.

A spur fit for a giant sits just off Highway 281 in Texas.

Known as one of America's most beautiful public restrooms.