Legend has it the commander of the defenders drew a fateful line in the dirt with his sword just before the final battle.

Two small markers remember the Alamo's feline protectors.

The quirky gift from West Berlin for the 1968 World's Fair still stands in Hemisfair Park.

An ivy-covered arch bridge dedicated to Tejano music singer and legend Rosita Fernandez.

This hidden sculpture garden full of Wild West art is one of San Antonio's best-kept secrets.

A seven-foot-tall cast concrete Native American Chief stands on the south railing of the historic Commerce Street Bridge, commissioned in 1914.

This library is designed to commemorate the work of the Human Genome Project.

It is a 50-foot tall sculpture made of a reclaimed wind turbine wing, concrete, steel, and coins from around the world, located off the Columbia Pike in Northern Virginia suburbia.

A dilapidated Victorian mansion sits in the middle of a Virginia golf course.

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

A royal relic from the time that gambling was accidentally made legal in South Carolina.

A Nessie-like monster supposedly lurks in this lake.

While knives are the main feature in this store, visitors will also find dinosaur bones and meteorites.

Amphibious mascots display a quirkier side to this luxury hotel's rich history.

A fake 1930s-euro-style hotel with an indoor mini golf course.

Northern Virginia’s iconic Vietnamese shopping center.

This map, on display in the Library of Congress, and one of only seven known to exist, is the very first map of the United States.

A monument first built to honor Confederate soldiers now honors their Union opponents.

The world's second largest rocking chair is found on Route 66 in Cuba... Missouri.

A life-size bronze statue of Ettore Boiardi, the man behind the can.

America's first National Historic Landmark is a 100-foot tall obelisk and gravesite dedicated to the only casualty of the Lewis & Clark Expedition.

Dedicated to the history of the 1,000 nuclear missiles that once covered the Great Plains.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.