Waco, Texas
Dr Pepper Museum
Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.
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Waco, Texas
Waco Mammoth Site
Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.
Terlingua, Texas
Terlingua Ghost Town
An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.
Marfa, Texas
Marfa Lights
Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.
Sonora, Texas
Caverns of Sonora
A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.
Ingram, Texas
Stonehenge II
A recreated Stonehenge stands in a country field, complete with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries.
Austin, Texas
Mayfield Park
Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.
San Antonio, Texas
Japanese Tea Garden
A gorgeous garden oasis with winding paths, stone bridges, and a troubling history.
Cedar Creek, Texas
Pecan Pie Vending Machine
A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.
Bellville, Texas
Newman's Castle
A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.
Houston, Texas
The Hobbit Café
A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.
Houston, Texas
National Museum of Funeral History
Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.
Waxahachie, Texas
Munster Mansion
A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.
Houston, Texas
Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern
A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.
Wimberley, Texas
Jacob's Well
A popular swimming hole that hides one of America's most deadly diving spots.
Austin, Texas
Congress Bridge Bats
Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.
Fort Worth, Texas
Fort Worth Water Gardens
A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.
Austin, Texas
Cathedral of Junk
This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.
Austin, Texas
Museum of the Weird
Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.
Dripping Springs, Texas
Hamilton Pool
An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.
Boston, Massachusetts
Memorial to Gallops Island Radio Training Station Graduates
This memorial honors those who served on Gallops Island Radio Training Station during the second World War.
Boston, Massachusetts
Boston's "Black Sea"
This area was once known for being a lawless haven for rough-and-tumble sailors, earning the maritime-themed nickname "the black sea."
Winthrop, Massachusetts
Deer Island Nipmuc Memorial
The site of the tragic isolation of Nipmuc Native Americans left to perish in King Philip's War.
Boston, Massachusetts
Faneuil Hall
A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.
