The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

Amazingly detailed marble cinerary urns that once held the cremains of Roman elite.

The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.

A colorful public mural in San Antonio's West Side encourages students to stay in school.

Craggy concrete faces are hidden in the walls of this artificial cave along the San Antonio River.

San Antonio's first 3-D stereoscopic mural is a trippy treat for the eyes.

Every Sunday, Bogotá turns 75 miles of its city streets into a bicycle superhighway.

Locals dubbed it the "Owl Building" because of its bird-like appearance.

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.

At the "Garage Mahal" in Houston, car culture is about more than just driving.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

The "last unrestored grand mansion of Savannah" is now a cramped, mouldering maze of antiques.

The first public building in Savannah to offer air conditioning was a luxurious cinema that still operates today.

An early-19th-century hotel with a past that is steeped in the Civil War.

This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.

Touch an actual dinosaur bone at this eclectic trove of Rocky Mountain treasures.

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

Around half a million years ago, these magnificent columnar basalt cliffs were formed from cooling lava.

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.

An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.