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For 150 years one family has been producing the iconic hot sauce on a bayou island made of salt.

This sacred cavern, 400 feet deep, is home to millions of bats and an ancient burial ground.

The future of roadside attractions is this sci-fi soda mecca that is home to a 66-foot tall neon pop bottle.

Bronze statue marks the spinach capital of the world.

The above-ground crypts at this Catholic cemetery face north-south instead of the usual east-west.

Over 100 million years ago, beach-bound dinosaurs left permanent marks on San Antonio's landscape.

This hidden sculpture garden full of Wild West art is one of San Antonio's best-kept secrets.

An abandoned, decaying sculpture garden built by an eccentric physician in the 1920s now looks more like a forgotten cemetery.

The house where the pulp fiction writer and Conan the Barbarian creator lived.

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

Exceptional Nepalese food can be found in a Texas gas station.

A serene temple with stunning stained glass hides in downtown Dallas.

Your one-stop-shop for antique tractor shows and emotional paintings of children championing livestock.

This is probably not the Target you're looking for.

The building where Mary, Queen of Scots was said to have bathed in white wine.

This former INS center is now home to a thriving community of artists, from performers to painters to architects.

Remnants of the city's Soviet history hover over this modern fast-food outlet.

This whimsical, unique clock has been entertaining shoppers for well over 20 years.

The reconstruction of this prominent building fulfilled a long-written command.

An eatery within the Minneapolis American Indian Center writes colonial ingredients out of the story of Native American cuisine.

This art display in Dedham honors a local fish, and is dedicated to the volunteers who restored the canal.

This amusement park brings a little slice of England to the heart of Kyushu.

This rare aquatic phenomenon is one of the more accessible tidal bores in Morecambe Bay.

This statue once earned the distinction as one of the "Three Major Disappointments of the World."