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A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

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

DIY collection of eclectic holdings.

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

A gorgeous garden oasis with winding paths, stone bridges, and a troubling history.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

A popular swimming hole that hides one of America's most deadly diving spots.

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

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

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

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

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

A mosaic map made of over 100,000 tiles depicts the geological features and sea creatures that live along this San Diego beachside community.

The tiniest tiki room in San Diego.

A mysterious light floating in the trees of Arkansas may be a piezoelectric effect.

A trio of waterfalls inside the world’s largest urban forest.

The ruins of a 19th-century aqueduct run through this Brazilian island's deep forest.

This peak in Chapada Diamantina National Park offers the most stunning sunsets.

An emporium of communication in Vitória's Old City.

Ella Fitzgerald, opera singer Enrico Caruso, and dancer Isadora Duncan all performed in this lavish, supposedly haunted theater.