Manitou Springs, Colorado
Miramont Castle Museum
This enigmatic building features numerous architectural styles.
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Manitou Springs, Colorado
This enigmatic building features numerous architectural styles.
Toronto, Ontario
This unusual structure may be on its way to becoming a cultural landmark in Toronto.
San Antonio, Texas
Craggy concrete faces are hidden in the walls of this artificial cave along the San Antonio River.
Austin, Texas
Austinās local mountain isnāt really a mountain at all.
Fort Worth, Texas
The "worldās largest honky-tonk" also has its own indoor rodeo arena.
Graford, Texas
The bridge continues the legacy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal policy.
Austin, Texas
Controversially claiming the title of world's biggest bass drum, UT's Big Bertha was once made radioactive by the Manhattan Project.
Irving, Texas
This strategically-placed fountain creates the magnificent illusion of mustangs galloping across a river.
Glen Rose, Texas
This abandoned building made of petrified wood was once a hotspot for buying moonshine.
Huntsville, Texas
The world's tallest statue of an American hero.
Archer City, Texas
A massive collection of rare and antique books in a tiny ranching community in northern Texas.
Watauga, Texas
High-end dining has a home in this former gas station.
Marfa, Texas
A little stop along the Texas highway where Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean stayed while shooting the 1955 filmĀ "Giant."
Galveston, Texas
This tiny, hurricane-resistant house in Galveston is one of the city's most notable architectural oddities.
Marfa, Texas
This old abandoned sign flickers to announce a motel that isn't even there.
Marfa, Texas
Minimalist modern art on a repurposed military base in rural Texas.
Austin, Texas
A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.
Waco, Texas
Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.
Sonora, Texas
A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.
Valentine, Texas
A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.
Austin, Texas
One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.
Fort Worth, Texas
A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.
Austin, Texas
DIY collection of eclectic holdings.
Vienna, Austria
Apartment complexes built into huge repurposed natural gas tanks.