The folks at the Devil's Rope Museum want you to get hooked on barbed wire history.

Once in disrepair, this popular Texas stop along iconic Route 66 has been restored to its past glory.

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

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

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

A symbol of Texas pride.

These boots are made for selfies.

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

Official museum, hall of fame, and repository of the Texas Rangers.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

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

The "world’s largest honky-tonk" also has its own indoor rodeo arena.

The man who wasn't there.

Half of a waterfall goes into the river while the other half seems to disappear.

Duluth mineral magnates built this charming art deco lodge to be their private clubhouse.

A giant granite cross remembers missionary Father Frederic Baraga, and his safe passage across an angry Lake Superior.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

This crumbling Death Valley mining complex was known for its use of giant, 20-mule team wagons.