Cemetery officials are finally seeing that the Father of Texas Blues’ grave is kept clean.

One of the last Art Deco gas station still standing in Dallas.

This family cemetery is a reminder of a smallpox outbreak in late-19th-century Texas.

Where Santa Claus held up a Texas bank and started a statewide manhunt.

When you visit his grave, be sure to rub the Great Emancipator's nose for good luck.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

The second largest roadrunner in the world stands 11 feet tall in his West Texas town.

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

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

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

Seven flags adorn this Texas museum, one for each of the powers that have ruled the area.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

The largest land animal skull ever discovered.

The unique location where the former president was rapidly sworn in.

High-end dining has a home in this former gas station.

A graceful natural rock formation stands astride the point where the Gulf of California meets the Pacific Ocean.

This descriptively-named art museum occupies an abandoned former county jail

Welcome to a starkly beautiful sanctuary where the buffalo roam.

A collection of massive stacked rocks in Texas includes a snarky note on the benefits of modern technology.

One of only two exposed meteor impact craters in the United States

The red brick house where the father of rock 'n' roll wrote some of his classic hits.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.