A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

This tiny, hurricane-resistant house in Galveston is one of the city's most notable architectural oddities.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

Legend has it the commander of the defenders drew a fateful line in the dirt with his sword just before the final battle.

The quirky gift from West Berlin for the 1968 World's Fair still stands in Hemisfair Park.

This big empty pig is a nostalgic throwback to mid-20th-century Texas barbecue.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

An ivy-covered arch bridge dedicated to Tejano music singer and legend Rosita Fernandez.

The second largest roadrunner in the world stands 11 feet tall in his West Texas town.

A cave's rare beauty held a cavernous secret hidden underground.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

This is one really big nut.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

The Jewish section of the famous Boothill Graveyard was abandoned for nearly 100 years.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

The world's largest rose bush has literally outgrown the pioneer museum it was planted behind.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

A monument commemorating the role of Alaska's native Tlingit guides in the Klondike Gold Rush.

One of two side-by-side totem pole parks dedicated to educating visitors on Tlingit history and culture.

The facade of this relic from the Klondike gold rush is decorated with over 8,800 pieces of driftwood.

A historic freight system that found the true gold rush is in tourism.