Port Aransas, Texas
Chapel on the Dunes
The oldest functional consecrated church on Mustang Island.
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Port Aransas, Texas
The oldest functional consecrated church on Mustang Island.
Fort Worth, Texas
Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.
Galveston, Texas
This little dolphin is the first monument dedicated to the LGBTQ+ community in the southern United States.
Houston, Texas
In Houston's airport, a cow is properly equipped to jump over the moon.
West, Texas
Some of the best pastries in "the Czech heritage capital of Texas" come from a gas station off I-35.
Florence, Texas
A community-funded monument to kindness in the face of life's difficulties.
Sulphur Springs, Texas
Known as one of America's most beautiful public restrooms.
Tyler, Texas
The largest public collection of roses in the United States.
Fort Worth, Texas
This library is a reader's paradise and a plant lover's dream.
Cross Plains, Texas
The house where the pulp fiction writer and Conan the Barbarian creator lived.
Cross Plains, Texas
An Americana dreamscape.
Jackson, Mississippi
This humble hole-in-the-wall is home to an incredible pig ear sandwich and serious civil rights history.
Hidalgo, Texas
A statue in the Texas town that proudly calls itself the killer bee capital of the world.
Brownsville, Texas
The water in this preserved area spawns vegetation that gives it a deep green color.
Edmond, Oklahoma
Built from oil field parts and resembling a teepee, this abandoned mid-century church is hoping for a comeback.
Arcadia, Oklahoma
The future of roadside attractions is this sci-fi soda mecca that is home to a 66-foot tall neon pop bottle.
Arcadia, Oklahoma
This unusually circular centenarian barn became a Route 66 icon.
Arcadia, Oklahoma
Along the historic Mother Road is an old gas station with a secret counterfeiting past.
Guthrie, Oklahoma
A funhouse dummy that turned out to be a real life mummy, Elmer McCurdy is an urban legend come true.
Austin, Texas
A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.
Austin, Texas
A former electrical substation is now home to an eccentric junk art masterpiece.
Austin, Texas
A tiny graveyard with a mysterious past.
Austin, Texas
One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.
Austin, Texas
This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.