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Newby-McMahon Building

Wichita Falls, Texas

Newby-McMahon Building

World's smallest skyscraper, the product of a remarkable con.

DeLoreans line up outside the repair facility.

Humble, Texas

DeLorean Museum

In the late 1990s, a mechanic and fan bought this iconic sportscar back from the dead.

Oblique aerial view of Wink Sink 1.
Permanently Closed

Winkler County, Texas

Wink Sink

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

Blood Lake: the O.C. Fisher Reservoir

San Angelo, Texas

Blood Lake: the O.C. Fisher Reservoir

The end of times arrives, at least for the fish in the O.C. Fisher Reservoir.

Westcave Outdoor Discovery Center

Round Mountain, Texas

Westcave Outdoor Discovery Center

This beautiful grotto is one of those places where you can't believe you're just outside Austin.

It's a hidden gem of one of the busiest streets in Houston.

Houston, Texas

The Hobbit Café

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

VW Slug Bug Ranch
Permanently Closed

Amarillo, Texas

VW Slug Bug Ranch

A small car graveyard sits in the shadow of the famous Cadillac Ranch.

Some Fall Color in McKittrick Canyon

Culberson County, Texas

McKittrick Canyon

Steep canyon walls hide a forested oasis in the West Texas desert.

The Second Amendment Cowboy

Amarillo, Texas

The Second Amendment Cowboy

This constitutionally sound Muffler Man harkens back to the days these attractions were a must-see.

Combine City has 14 "planted" combine tractors...

Amarillo, Texas

Combine City

These half-buried combine harvesters just off Route 66 are an homage to the Cadillac Ranch.

Boggy Creek Monster

Fouke, Arkansas

Boggy Creek Monster

The legend of a local monster still haunts this small town.

Munster Mansion

Waxahachie, Texas

Munster Mansion

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

Parallel Forest

Lawton, Oklahoma

Parallel Forest

A peculiar forest that was handcrafted for government experiments.

Buffalo herd in the Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge.

Lawton, Oklahoma

Wichita Mountains Buffalo Herd

American bison herd descending directly from a Bronx Zoo breeding program that saved the species from extinction.

Pentaceratops Skull

Norman, Oklahoma

Pentaceratops Skull

The largest land animal skull ever discovered.

The reconstructed Old Stone Fort.

Nacogdoches, Texas

Old Stone Fort

Witness to many historic moments in early Texas history.

The waters of the bayou.

Karnack, Texas

Caddo Lake

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

The Toy and Action Figure Museum

Pauls Valley, Oklahoma

The Toy and Action Figure Museum

The world's only museum devoted solely to the art and collection of action figures.

Hollie Tatnell's grave.

Hearne, Texas

Grave in the Road

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

Showmen's Rest

Hugo, Oklahoma

Showmen's Rest

Circus cemetery for all the “showmen under God’s big top.”

Dublin Dr Pepper being bottled.

Dublin, Texas

Dublin Bottling Works

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

Texas Eiffel Tower

Paris, Texas

Texas Eiffel Tower

In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.

Grave of the Lost Arm of F. Stewart

Paradise, Texas

The Lost Arm of F. Stewart

In Paradise Cemetery resides a mysterious headstone with a strange inscription.

Fort Worth Water Gardens

Fort Worth, Texas

Fort Worth Water Gardens

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

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