The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

For 150 years one family has been producing the iconic hot sauce on a bayou island made of salt.

A swamp and garden tour featuring local wildlife and exotic botanical specimens from around the world.

A reimagined 19th-century Acadian village featuring authentic Cajun-style homes filled with artifacts specific to the period.

This creepy, yet oddly beautiful cemetery is home to one of the founding fathers of Lake Charles.

This Route 66 classic sports a giant fiberglass rabbit that you can ride.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million Mexican free-tail bats.

A popular swimming hole that hides one of America's most deadly diving spots.

This eclectic, mosaic-clad home includes a bamboo ping-pong loft and a "Whispermaphones" intercom.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

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

Decades of discarded bottle caps line this alleyway, a fixture of Texas A&M.

The second largest roadrunner in the world stands 11 feet tall in his West Texas town.

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

Human ancestor’s 3.6 million year-old footprints.

These strange piles of magnetized volcanic ash travel across the desert about 50 feet per year.

The culture that built these Tanzanian ruins displayed advanced knowledge of irrigation technology before mysteriously disappearing.

This rare volcano spews the strangest and (literally) coolest lava in the world.

A salty red wasteland in Tanzania is a breeding spot for endangered flamingos.

Some islands... they come, they go, especially on Lake Travis.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

Austin’s nonprofit-run graffiti park where street art is meant to be painted over.

Locals dubbed it the "Owl Building" because of its bird-like appearance.