The biggest drug trafficking passage between Mexico and the U.S.

This historic Civil War church has survived over a century of racial turmoil but still stands as a reminder of the town's roots.

Just like the real 36th president of the United States, animatronic LBJ amuses visitors with jokes and stories.

A little stop along the Texas highway where Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean stayed while shooting the 1955 film "Giant."

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

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.

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.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

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

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

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

A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

A Texas museum filled with Broncos and Betties.

Of course the grave of JFK's assassin is surrounded by conspiracy theories.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans’ graves.

World's second largest particle accelerator, where nature reveals its secrets.

The famous author's birthplace is preserved in a town that he once described as narrow-minded.

It was originally part of a "terrible lizards" collection at the 1964 New York World’s Fair.