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.

A master plumber has turned his love of art and toilets into a folk museum that's not taking the piss.

Not to be confused with the iconic New York City skyscraper, this Chicago building is a vibrant hub for artists.

The palatial McDonald's that inspired Wesley Willis.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

This North Carolina museum is keeping the pinball craze alive, with a little Space Invaders on the side.

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.

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

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

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

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

Controversially claiming the title of world's biggest bass drum, UT's Big Bertha was once made radioactive by the Manhattan Project.

A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.

In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.

In Paris, Texas, even Jesus wears cowboy boots.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.