In the mid-20th century, a tamale-slinging juke joint attracted a diverse clientele in the Mississippi Delta.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

Texas’s first suspension bridge is still carrying people across the Brazos.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.

Water still flows through the oldest Spanish aqueduct in America.

An immense cave that has served as an outlaw's treasure trove, an underground dance hall, a nuclear fallout shelter, and much more.

An 18-foot-tall troll sculpture, made from recycled wood and materials found in nature.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

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

Modern technology and live displays tell the story of the Pacific during WWII for the Internet generation.

The state bird of New Mexico, constructed entirely out of garbage.

This 47-foot chile pepper sculpture welcomes Scoville heat unit obsessed tourists to the Big Chile Inn.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

This is one really big nut.

Hidden in the New Mexico desert southeast of Roswell, nine small deep lakes formed inside sinkholes.

An abandoned movie set in the desert of West Texas.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

The second largest roadrunner in the world stands 11 feet tall in his West Texas town.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

Larger-than-life cut-out murals of James Dean and Elizabeth Taylor, dedicated to their 1956 film ‘Giant.’

Minimalist modern art on a repurposed military base in rural Texas.

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