This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A hundred-year-old museum filled with giant physics toys and experiments designed by grad students.

A bronze plaque marks the site of the only show the "King of the Soul Singers" ever missed.

A theme park attraction designed to turn your children into LARPers.

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

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

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

Remembering the Alamo with a full-scale replica of the 1836 city.

I Street Bridge is the heaviest swinging center bridge in the United States.

The former Naval shipyard is open for exploring - mostly.

Puzzling...this tree looks like an assemblage of dismembered monkey limbs.

Each summer, the migratory bats living beneath the bypass form "batnadoes" at dusk.

Special tunnels built so that frogs won't be killed when crossing the highway.

A collection of massive stacked rocks in Texas includes a snarky note on the benefits of modern technology.

Stones speckled along Harris Avenue reveal hidden nuggets of the past.

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

Outsider art or homage to aliens?

This graffiti-covered bridge is the quintessential vision of a place for disillusioned youth to escape the complexities of burgeoning adulthood.

The largest drain hole in the world.

A huge collection of rocks, gems, and crystals.

This private home is famous for appearing in the cult-classic "Twin Peaks" series.