Bournemouth, England
Bournemouth Natural Science Society
Open for a weekend once a year around October it houses a fascinating collection of unique Victorian preserved and stuffed animals.
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Bournemouth, England
Open for a weekend once a year around October it houses a fascinating collection of unique Victorian preserved and stuffed animals.
Fort Worth, Texas
Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.
Fort Worth, Texas
A Texas museum filled with Broncos and Betties.
Burnet, Texas
This underwater old Texas hill town only resurfaces during harsh drought.
Hondo, Texas
On a dusty county road sit the ruins of a ghost town's abandoned church.
Carlsbad, New Mexico
The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."
Balmorhea, Texas
A spring-fed pool so deep it's used for scuba diving as well as swimming.
Fort Stockton, Texas
The second largest roadrunner in the world stands 11 feet tall in his West Texas town.
Midland, Texas
The petroleum industry brings you the joys of hydrocarbons and largest collection of antique oil rigs in the world.
Brackettville, Texas
Remembering the Alamo with a full-scale replica of the 1836 city.
Mineral Wells, Texas
Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.
Fort Worth, Texas
A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.
Ingram, Texas
A recreated Stonehenge stands in a country field, complete with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries.
Fredericksburg, Texas
Modern technology and live displays tell the story of the Pacific during WWII for the Internet generation.
Fredericksburg, Texas
An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.
Fredericksburg, Texas
Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million Mexican free-tail bats.
San Antonio, Texas
Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.
San Antonio, Texas
The 40-foot-tall votive candle is the largest of its kind.
San Antonio, Texas
A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.
San Antonio, Texas
Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.
San Antonio, Texas
Soldiers honored the beloved Pat with a special grave.
San Antonio, Texas
A National Historic Landmark with a scenic clock tower and park filled with deer and peacocks, plus a military museum.
San Antonio, Texas
Established in 1925, Kiddie Park claims to be the oldest amusement park in the U.S. - a cozy little time warp nestled in a shady corner of the modern world.
San Antonio, Texas
The only museum dedicated to the history of the "Magic Lantern," a medieval slide projector.