Austin, Texas
Mayfield Park
Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.
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Austin, Texas
Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.
Valentine, Texas
A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.
Austin, Texas
A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.
Marfa, Texas
Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.
Houston, Texas
A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.
Houston, Texas
Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.
Fredericksburg, Texas
An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.
Austin, Texas
A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.
Cedar Creek, Texas
A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.
Waxahachie, Texas
A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.
Austin, Texas
One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.
Wimberley, Texas
A popular swimming hole that hides one of America's most deadly diving spots.
Austin, Texas
Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.
Amarillo, Texas
A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.
Fort Worth, Texas
A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.
Austin, Texas
This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.
Austin, Texas
Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.
Dripping Springs, Texas
An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.
Littlefield, Arizona
This old selenite mine is dotted with tiny crystals that make it shimmer like it's covered in glitter.
Tombstone, Arizona
This curiosity shop contains a museum filled with bizarre, unique objects.
Phoenix, Arizona
This unique competition celebrates an American Indian and Canadian First Nation cultural tradition.
Williams, Arizona
Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.
Quartzsite, Arizona
A scrap-metal sculpture recalls an infamous 19th-century camel.
Morenci, Arizona
The largest copper mine in Arizona, this enormous open pit emerges from the hills like an alien landscape.