The largest pool at its elevation sits on top of one of the most expensive resorts in the world.

A collection of beautiful crystals shaped like freshly plucked roses.

This ostentatious Italianate palace of an Oklahoma billionaire is filled with several themed mini-museums.

A larger-than-life monument to the overlooked women who braved Western expansion and broke down societal barriers.

A museum and apothecary garden devoted to the history of frontier medicine.

A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.

Final resting place of Geronimo, Quanah Parker, and the first atomic gun ever fired.

On a dusty county road sit the ruins of a ghost town's abandoned church.

Over 100 million years ago, beach-bound dinosaurs left permanent marks on San Antonio's landscape.

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

These boots are made for selfies.

Of course the grave of JFK's assassin is surrounded by conspiracy theories.

A tiny waterway named after a ghost story.

Texas's oldest bakery serves authentic German pastries, including legendary strudel.

Witness to many historic moments in early Texas history.

Campus tradition says couples who walk beneath this enormous oak will stay together forever.

This little dolphin is the first monument dedicated to the LGBTQ+ community in the southern United States.

A decaying concrete oil tanker served as a disposal location for bootleg hootch.

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

Its collection is a sweet reminder of the shuttered factory.

Hundreds of thousands of ancient documents offer a unique glimpse into Jewish life in Cairo.

A preserved oasis with traditional Andalusian-style architecture and beautiful views of the Nile.

This ancient structure is widely thought to be the oldest intact pyramid in the world.

These Egyptian statues have survived for 3,400 years and were an acoustic wonder of the ancient world.