Austin, Texas
Mueller SunFlowers
A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.
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Austin, Texas
A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.
Austin, Texas
A former electrical substation is now home to an eccentric junk art masterpiece.
Austin, Texas
Austin’s nonprofit-run graffiti park where street art is meant to be painted over.
Austin, Texas
Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.
Austin, Texas
Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.
Austin, Texas
This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.
Austin, Texas
Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.
Fredericksburg, Texas
Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million Mexican free-tail bats.
Fredericksburg, Texas
Modern technology and live displays tell the story of the Pacific during WWII for the Internet generation.
Fredericksburg, Texas
An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.
Dripping Springs, Texas
An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.
Mineral Wells, Texas
Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.
Valentine, Texas
A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.
Marfa, Texas
Minimalist modern art on a repurposed military base in rural Texas.
Balmorhea, Texas
A spring-fed pool so deep it's used for scuba diving as well as swimming.
Marfa, Texas
Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.
Terlingua, Texas
Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.
Terlingua, Texas
An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.
Beelitz, Germany
Terrifying derelict military hospital once housed a recuperating Hitler.
Brück, Germany
The metal-free wooden towers of Brück.
Cahors, France
A 14th century bridge built as a fortress, where the devil lurks on one of its towers.
East Sussex, England
These stark white cliffs were spat up by the sea and are slowly being retaken by it.
East Sussex, England
England's most notorious suicide spot.
Greatstone, England
Huge concrete structures designed as an early warning system for Britain to detect enemy aircraft.