Comfort, Texas
Hygieostatic Bat Roost
This unique tower has been home to malaria-fighting bats for 100 years.
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Comfort, Texas
This unique tower has been home to malaria-fighting bats for 100 years.
San Antonio, Texas
The cremains of those who donated their bodies to science are buried in a tiny cemetery behind the building.
Nye County, Nevada
The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.
Saint Hedwig, Texas
A tiny waterway named after a ghost story.
College Station, Texas
Campus tradition says couples who walk beneath this enormous oak will stay together forever.
Burnet, Texas
This underwater old Texas hill town only resurfaces during harsh drought.
Marble Falls Township, Texas
Civil War dumping ground for the bodies of terrorized Union sympathizers.
Austin, Texas
One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.
Austin, Texas
A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.
Austin, Texas
Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.
Austin, Texas
Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.
Austin, Texas
Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.
Austin, Texas
Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.
Austin, Texas
A high-octane shrine to the greatest Texans who ever lived.
Austin, Texas
This unassuming North Austin neighborhood was built to test the novel idea of home air conditioning.
Hearne, Texas
This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.
Waco, Texas
Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.
Waco, Texas
Official museum, hall of fame, and repository of the Texas Rangers.
Waco, Texas
Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.
Waco, Texas
A musical sanctuary that preserves gospel’s Golden Age is tucked inside a library at Baylor University.
Louisville, Kentucky
This railroad overpass is said to be home to a murderous goat-man whose very legend has led to very real deaths.
Mammoth Cave, Kentucky
The world's longest known cave system.
Williamsburg, Kentucky
Moonbows over Kentucky.
Cave City, Kentucky
An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.