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

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

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

255 feet of suds, scrubbers, and blow dryers.

A park filled with vibrant mosaics created by more than 300 folk artists.

The only airport with a people mover system designed by Walt Disney Imagineering.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

The saga of the massive nut begins and ends in Texas.

In the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere, this was the former home of the Marshal of Gravity and the site of his tragic death.

A unique blue and yellow phone booth in America's "Little Sweden."

This mid-19th-century dugout was once home to a Swedish family as they erected their homestead.

A landscape of massive spherical boulders are the main attraction in this Kansas State Park.

Curious rock formations in a tiny Kansas state park.

It's big, it's a ball, and it's made of twine—the world's largest of its kind.

This artsy public restroom is shaped like a giant john.

A unique attraction and museum dedicated to exploring iconic roadside structures.

Kansas's Grassroots Art Capital welcomes visitors to Lucas through its very own World's Largest Thing.

A 20-foot-tall egg painted in a traditional Czech patterns by the Czech community in Wilson, Kansas.

This tiny old water tower once doubled as a makeshift jail.

Marking the spot where a conquistador gave up his search for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold.

Self-built house and sculpture park where the creator can still be seen in a glass coffin.