The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

This former Texas landfill is flush with 300 million-year-old fossils, all fit for the taking.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

A popular swimming hole that hides one of America's most deadly diving spots.

Life's work of sculptor Elisabet Ney remains preserved in her last studio.

The upstairs reading room is packed with millions of rare books, literary manuscripts, and historical treasures.

A high-octane shrine to the greatest Texans who ever lived.

This massive oak tree has ties to the first native tribes of the region and the founders of Texas.

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

This roadside dinosaur park offered up lumpy neon thunder lizards in the name of kitsch and education.

This Art Deco fortress in upstate New York gives Manhattan's vaunted examples of the style a run for their money.

Surprisingly aquamarine waters fill deep lakes formed at the end of the last ice age.

A historic recreation of the golden age of the Erie Canal, abandoned for some time, slowly being restored.

Possibly the smallest church in the world floats in the middle of a pond.

The shared home of a utopian commune that practiced "free love" a century before the hippies.