San Antonio, Texas
Mission San Jose
Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.
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San Antonio, Texas
Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.
San Antonio, Texas
Two small markers remember the Alamo's feline protectors.
San Antonio, Texas
Legend has it the commander of the defenders drew a fateful line in the dirt with his sword just before the final battle.
Helotes, Texas
Over 100 million years ago, beach-bound dinosaurs left permanent marks on San Antonio's landscape.
Fredericksburg, Texas
Modern technology and live displays tell the story of the Pacific during WWII for the Internet generation.
Langtry, Texas
Once called the Jersey Lilly, this former saloon was the domain of infamous Judge Roy Bean.
Hondo, Texas
On a dusty county road sit the ruins of a ghost town's abandoned church.
Comstock, Texas
Beauty and history abound in this remote West Texas canyon.
Sonora, Texas
A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.
Llano, Texas
This grimly-titled Texas cemetery is all that remains of a Wild West settlement with possibly the worst name.
Burnet, Texas
An immense cave that has served as an outlaw's treasure trove, an underground dance hall, a nuclear fallout shelter, and much more.
College Station, Texas
Decades of discarded bottle caps line this alleyway, a fixture of Texas A&M.
College Station, Texas
Campus tradition says couples who walk beneath this enormous oak will stay together forever.
Huntsville, Texas
Inmates dig the graves at the largest prison cemetery in the U.S., the final resting place of both cowboys and Indians.
Huntsville, Texas
The world's tallest statue of an American hero.
Carthage, Texas
The only international border marker within the United States.
Karnack, Texas
Foragers once flocked to this big beautiful bayou to hunt for pearls.
Murfreesboro, Arkansas
The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.
Hearne, Texas
This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.
Avery Island, Louisiana
For 150 years one family has been producing the iconic hot sauce on a bayou island made of salt.
Schulenburg, Texas
Twenty churches beautifully painted by 19th-century Czech and German immigrants in Texas.
Wichita Falls, Texas
World's smallest skyscraper, the product of a remarkable con.
Lubbock, Texas
This Texas windmill field celebrates the power and majesty of the very winds that blow.
Trinidad, Colorado
The scene of one of the darkest moments in American labor history has been left essentially untouched since the tragedy.