Houston, Texas
National Museum of Funeral History
Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.
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Houston, Texas
Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.
Bastrop, Texas
The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.
Austin, Texas
Locals dubbed it the "Owl Building" because of its bird-like appearance.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Collection of skeletal systems from the "world's leading supplier of osteological specimens."
Sulphur, Oklahoma
Once the smallest park in the national system.
West, Texas
Some of the best pastries in "the Czech heritage capital of Texas" come from a gas station off I-35.
Grapevine, Texas
A few times a day, you can see an animatronic cowboy shoot-out.
The Colony, Texas
A master plumber has turned his love of art and toilets into a folk museum that's not taking the piss.
Santiago, Chile
This museum covers 10,000 years of Pre-Columbian Latin American history.
Santiago, Chile
How a lunch counter in Chile became a shrine to the 42nd president of the United States
Santiago, Chile
A museum founded to reflect on and remember the human rights abuses under Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.
Santiago, Chile
This sculpture meant to honor the bravery of the Indigenous Mapuche people of Chile proved controversial.
Santiago, Chile
It's just another skyscraper, but it's shaped like '90s cell phone.
Skopje, North Macedonia
These abundant, over-the-top monuments are so widely scattered that they define the entire compact capital cityscape, often leading to jokes about whether there are more statues than residents.
Skopje, North Macedonia
In the hometown of the Catholic saint and Nobel Peace Prize winner, a memorial dedicated to her legacy.
Dallas, Texas
A city park that sits on top of a freeway.
Plano, Texas
This family cemetery is a reminder of a smallpox outbreak in late-19th-century Texas.
Tosari, Indonesia
Of five volcanoes located in the massive Tengger caldera, this cone is the youngest and most active.
Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
Malaysia's floating mosque.
Kampung Lupak Luas, Brunei
Ferdinand Magellan dubbed the world's largest water village the "Venice of the East."
Miri, Malaysia
One of the largest caverns in the world has a maw large enough to stack cathedrals in.
Maldon, Australia
A timber transport car and a team of horses were needed to carry this lookout to the top of Mount Tarrengower in the 1920s.
Bendigo, Australia
Direct access to a gold mine showing the boom and bust of Australia's Victorian gold rush.
Alaska
The stickered marker pinpoints where the only maintained road in the United States crosses into the polar region.