Austin, Texas
Congress Bridge Bats
Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.
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Austin, Texas
Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.
Austin, Texas
Some islands... they come, they go, especially on Lake Travis.
Fredericksburg, Texas
Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million Mexican free-tail bats.
Ingram, Texas
A recreated Stonehenge stands in a country field, complete with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries.
Brackettville, Texas
Remembering the Alamo with a full-scale replica of the 1836 city.
Terlingua, Texas
An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.
Culberson County, Texas
The highest point in Texas is capped by a big silver pyramid.
Carlsbad, New Mexico
The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."
Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
A giant "X" symbolizes the blood spilled from the brutal Juárez drug wars.
Holbrook, Arizona
See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.
Winslow, Arizona
This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."
Lake Havasu City, Arizona
This immigrant bridge once spanned the Thames but is now a fixture of an Arizona city.
Newberry Springs, California
The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.
Daggett, California
Decommissioned experimental solar facilities that pioneered solar energy technology.
Lucerne Valley, California
This strangely vacant Western amusement seems to be an empty tribute to residents of Lucerne Valley.
Tehachapi, California
Thousands of turbines whir at the origin of North American wind power.
Lancaster, California
Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.
Riverside, California
Mexican food and folk art.
Cabazon, California
The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.
Crestline, California
Carved by a waterfall in a hard-to-reach rock formation, this heart-shaped rock has inspired romantics for decades.
Near Lake Arrowhead, California
Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.