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Big Boots.

San Antonio, Texas

World's Largest Cowboy Boots

These boots are made for selfies.

Ingram Dam

Ingram, Texas

Ingram Dam

A dam that moonlights as a gigantic, brutalist waterslide.

The Saloon building

Comfort, Texas

The Cartoon Saloon

A unique cartoon-filled roadside attraction.

Contrabando
Permanently Closed

Redford, Texas

Contrabando

An abandoned movie set in the desert of West Texas.

Postcard of the ghost town cemetery.

Terlingua, Texas

Terlingua Ghost Town

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

Stardust Motel sign.

Marfa, Texas

Stardust Motel Sign

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

Cowboys in the mural.

Marfa, Texas

Building 98

A World War II officers' club features Old West murals painted by German POWs.

Donald Judd's works at The Chinati Foundation.

Marfa, Texas

Chinati Foundation

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

The Sentinel

Marfa, Texas

The Sentinel

With print dying, this local paper keeps the lights on by doubling as a stunning cafe and cocktail bar.

Hotel Paisano

Marfa, Texas

Hotel Paisano

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

Faith Alive Cowboy Church Radio Station

Marfa, Texas

Faith Alive Cowboy Church Radio Station

Not everything is bigger in Texas.

Petrified Wood Building

Lamar, Colorado

Petrified Wood Building

Once named the “world’s oldest gas station” due to its unusual construction material.

World's Largest Branding Iron

Vega, Texas

World's Largest Branding Iron

The Milburn-Price Culture Museum in Vega offers a brand-name oversized cultural attraction.

Oblique aerial view of Wink Sink 1.
Permanently Closed

Winkler County, Texas

Wink Sink

Two massive and unstable sinkholes are yearning to unite, and their consummation could be catastrophic.

The colorful travertine Mineral Terrace, as seen from the Swinging Bridge.

Thermopolis, Wyoming

Hot Springs State Park

The world's largest mineral hot springs is home to a herd of bison, a free public bath house, beautiful mineral formations, and a terrifying swinging bridge.

The World's Largest Thermometer

Baker, California

World's Largest Thermometer

This giant temperature attraction created some giant electric bills.

St Martin’s Rotunda, Prague

Prague, Czechia

Rotonde Saint-Martin (St Martin’s Rotunda)

The largest and best-preserved rotunda in Prague.

Old North Church

Boston, Massachusetts

Old North Church

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

Berkeley Weather Beacon

Boston, Massachusetts

Berkeley Weather Beacon

A beacon atop a downtown building provides Bostonians with weather forecasts and baseball news.

Frontal view of the head of the goddess

Bath, England

Head of Sulis Minerva

The accidental discovery of this gilt bronze head led archaeologists to find the Roman Baths in the city of Bath

The Eye - a closer look

Leadville, Colorado

House With the Eye Museum

This 19th-century house museum features a horse-drawn hearse and other antique oddities.

Richard B. Dunn Solar Telescope

Sunspot, New Mexico

Sunspot Solar Observatory

High in the Sacramento Mountains, a facility dedicated to studying the sun.

The Ryman Auditorium Gates, which let out into the alley.

Nashville, Tennessee

Ryman Alley

The alley connecting two of country music’s most historic venues has a rich history of its own.

The Four Mile House in the park.

Glendale, Colorado

Four Mile Historic Park

It's easy to forget what century it is as you wander this rustic homestead.

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