Minimalist modern art on a repurposed military base in rural Texas.

An unusual bed & breakfast made of papercrete.

With print dying, this local paper keeps the lights on by doubling as a stunning cafe and cocktail bar.

Beauty and history abound in this remote West Texas canyon.

A free, canine-friendly alternative watering hole near the more famous Barton Springs.

Human remains in varying states of decay are strewn about this Texas State facility for scientific study.

A little stop along the Texas highway where Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean stayed while shooting the 1955 film "Giant."

This quirky outpost and gallery inside a former church is an unexpected trove of handcrafted art.

This old abandoned sign flickers to announce a motel that isn't even there.

A small car graveyard sits in the shadow of the famous Cadillac Ranch.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

Home to an endangered salamander, a full moon celebration, and a large spring-fed outdoor swimming pool.

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

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

A temporary art piece to celebrate LGBTQ Pride is now a permanent part of Stockholm's traffic landscape.

A golden plaque marks the site of the mysterious unsolved assassination of the former Swedish prime minister.

This post-war motel embodies a little-known, Miami-born architectural style.

This Art Deco theater is the last remaining opera house in the “little Broadway of the North.”

Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.

One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.

The sign that drew attention to a young boy's cucumber stand is now the name of his fruit superstore.

Where monkeys run wild and the humans are caged.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.