In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.

This soda factory is one of the last in America to use real cane sugar despite the protestations of Dr Pepper.

This grimly-titled Texas cemetery is all that remains of a Wild West settlement with possibly the worst name.

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

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

A decaying concrete oil tanker served as a disposal location for bootleg hootch.

Twenty churches beautifully painted by 19th-century Czech and German immigrants in Texas.

Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

The romance of early commercial flight still fills this Art Deco destination.

This isn't your average roadway—it's actually a National Park and a transportation pioneer.

One street divides a single town that stands in two U.S. states.

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

The ruins of this Thomas-Jefferson-designed mansion have been left to crumble since the Christmas Day they burnt down.

The highest point in Virginia can only be reached by passing through ponies and flowers.

Exact replica of the ancient monument, but much, much lighter.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

An original apothecary from 1792.

A 300-yard long natural tunnel runs through a ridge deep in the Appalachian Mountains.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

This Mississippi seminary was the first in America to train Black Catholic priests.

A historic Civil War estate-turned-museum looks back on the Confederate States of America.

This two-room shotgun shack in Tupelo is the birthplace of a King.