A ring of creosote bushes that are estimated to be 11,700 years old.

This general store offers visitors a glimpse back into the 1930s.

A monument to the frontier doctor who came up with the idea of delineating highways with a painted line.

This is probably not the Target you're looking for.

Two massive and unstable sinkholes are yearning to unite, and their consummation could be catastrophic.

Life's work of sculptor Elisabet Ney remains preserved in her last studio.

The mansion-like building is packed with Texas pride.

A historic, century-old house plopped along the perimeter of Houston's ballpark.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

Remembering the Alamo with a full-scale replica of the 1836 city.

A tiny waterway named after a ghost story.

This collection of bronze hands comes from astronauts, presidents, baseball greats, and more.

A Texas-sized particle collider that was abandoned due to its Texas-sized budget.

A starship has landed in Texas, a welcome break for weary travelers from a drab stretch of I-35.

Locals dubbed it the "Owl Building" because of its bird-like appearance.

255 feet of suds, scrubbers, and blow dryers.

A collection of vintage liaison aircraft kept in flying condition and on display at an airfield in San Antonio.

There is an unmarked red button hidden over Houston's Buffalo Bayou that is just begging to pushed...

An oddities shop packed with twisted treasures inspired by Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.

The man who wasn't there.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

Civil War dumping ground for the bodies of terrorized Union sympathizers.

Foragers once flocked to this big beautiful bayou to hunt for pearls.