A little stop along the Texas highway where Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean stayed while shooting the 1955 film "Giant."

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.

This old abandoned sign flickers to announce a motel that isn't even there.

Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

Once in disrepair, this popular Texas stop along iconic Route 66 has been restored to its past glory.

A gorgeous garden oasis with winding paths, stone bridges, and a troubling history.

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

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

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

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

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

This theatre was made famous after Lee Harvey Oswald was captured inside watching a film.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

An small and easily overlooked archaeology museum chock full of Egyptian artifacts.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.

Once the main gateway to Tokyo, sneaking through this checkpoint was a capital offense in feudal times.

This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

Hundreds of thousands of ancient documents offer a unique glimpse into Jewish life in Cairo.

Ancient Egyptian relief, claimed to depict an electrical light.