Balmorhea, Texas
Balmorhea State Park Pool
A spring-fed pool so deep it's used for scuba diving as well as swimming.
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Balmorhea, Texas
A spring-fed pool so deep it's used for scuba diving as well as swimming.
Austin, Texas
Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.
Glen Rose, Texas
Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.
Canyon, Texas
The Grand Canyon of Texas.
Austin, Texas
Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.
Waxahachie, Texas
It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.
Sonora, Texas
A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.
Cedar Creek, Texas
The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.
Aurora, Texas
This small town Texas cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.
Terlingua, Texas
An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.
Waxahachie, Texas
A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.
Austin, Texas
One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.
Fort Worth, Texas
A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.
Chicago, Illinois
The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.
Chicago, Illinois
A Museum of Holography frozen in 1974.
Chicago, Illinois
One of the largest pieces of scientific equipment ever carried on a NASA space shuttle sits in a Chicago alley.
Chicago, Illinois
The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.
Chicago, Illinois
One-of-a-kind preserved ruins of an abandoned 1880s church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.
Chicago, Illinois
In Chicago, a pizza-enthusiast has opened a museum dedicated to the history of pizza.
Chicago, Illinois
One of the last functioning antique elevators in Chicago.
Chicago, Illinois
A strange and haunting monument of unknown origin in the historic Graceland Cemetery.
Chicago, Illinois
This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.
Chicago, Illinois
A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.
Chicago, Illinois
Former meatpacking facility turned vertical farm and sustainable business complex.