Home to an endangered salamander, a full moon celebration, and a large spring-fed outdoor swimming pool.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

A cosmic pit stop just beyond the notorious Area 51.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

This once-booming Gold Rush town is now home to a herd of feral donkeys.

The "world’s largest honky-tonk" also has its own indoor rodeo arena.

This old abandoned sign flickers to announce a motel that isn't even there.

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

Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.

This soda factory is one of the last in America to use real cane sugar despite the protestations of Dr Pepper.

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

A high-octane shrine to the greatest Texans who ever lived.

Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million Mexican free-tail bats.

This underwater old Texas hill town only resurfaces during harsh drought.

An immense cave that has served as an outlaw's treasure trove, an underground dance hall, a nuclear fallout shelter, and much more.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

Modern technology and live displays tell the story of the Pacific during WWII for the Internet generation.

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

A Texas landowner spelled out his name with three miles of trees, a giant signature that's been used by NASA to evaluate satellite imagery.

Campus tradition says couples who walk beneath this enormous oak will stay together forever.

Resting place of the Texas A&M canine mascots, who watch the game from the grave with their own miniature scoreboard.

A spur fit for a giant sits just off Highway 281 in Texas.

A community-funded monument to kindness in the face of life's difficulties.