This float factory takes the mask off of Mardi Gras and lets visitors see where the magic happens.

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

Welcome to a starkly beautiful sanctuary where the buffalo roam.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

Locals dubbed it the "Owl Building" because of its bird-like appearance.

This simple frog painting created by musician Daniel Johnston embodies the spirit of Austin.

The world's tallest statue of an American hero.

Campus tradition says couples who walk beneath this enormous oak will stay together forever.

The largest land animal skull ever discovered.

Some of the best pastries in "the Czech heritage capital of Texas" come from a gas station off I-35.

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

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.