A National Historic Landmark with a scenic clock tower and park filled with deer and peacocks, plus a military museum.

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

To honor a beloved Austin radio DJ a neighborhood bridge has been covered in a loving mosaic.

A small island hides in plain sight on Austin's Lady Bird Lake.

A fruit-loving town welcomes visitors with a giant melon set against the sky.

Artist James Turrell's ode to dawn and dusk on the campus of Rice University.

A historic, century-old house plopped along the perimeter of Houston's ballpark.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

These elusive, isolated rodents evolved into a distinct, locally iconic subspecies.

This Route 66 classic sports a giant fiberglass rabbit that you can ride.

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.

After the parade, students throw their beads on the tree hoping for good luck on exams.

Quito's historic, main square dates back to the 16th century.

This museum pays tribute to the Cherokee leader who created a written language for his people.

A series of abstract, silly sculptures represent the works of a great modern classical composer.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

Stripes of human ashes cover a back lawn in the most sought-after burial grounds in Paris.

The tomb of history's greatest potato promoter is surrounded by tubers.