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A tall smoke stack and boarded-up buildings are all that's left of the pioneering plant.

A tribute to the "toughest woman on the Texas frontier," who survived a famous battle and five husbands.

This hidden sculpture garden full of Wild West art is one of San Antonio's best-kept secrets.

A mythical chimera first sculpted in 1936 as a mix of the main animals of Texas livestock.

An abandoned, decaying sculpture garden built by an eccentric physician in the 1920s now looks more like a forgotten cemetery.

This tiny, hurricane-resistant house in Galveston is one of the city's most notable architectural oddities.

This eclectic Austin curiosity shop is home to all things strange and unusual.

Life's work of sculptor Elisabet Ney remains preserved in her last studio.

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

These boots are made for selfies.

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

DIY collection of eclectic holdings.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.

A giant 400-acre preserve in North Florida for displaced wolves.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

This structure among the trees was the result of divine inspiration.

The site of the "Bone Wars" between two rival paleontologists during the dinosaur rush of the 19th century.

Possibly the world's only drive-in movie theater with an attached motel.

Colorado's only true geyser is hidden within the San Juan National Forest.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

This National Natural Landmark is one of the best examples of a “mass wasting” in the world.

This small piece of railroad history sits behind the parking lot of a chain grocery store.