An ivy-covered arch bridge dedicated to Tejano music singer and legend Rosita Fernandez.

A mythical chimera first sculpted in 1936 as a mix of the main animals of Texas livestock.

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

A Texas museum filled with Broncos and Betties.

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

Home to an endangered salamander, a full moon celebration, and a large spring-fed outdoor swimming pool.

One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.

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

Over 100 million years ago, beach-bound dinosaurs left permanent marks on San Antonio's landscape.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

A health museum containing a 27’’½-foot intestine.

The summer home of the largest colony of bats in the world.

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

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

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

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

The 10th-tallest pyramid in the world, this former sports arena is now home to a massive Bass Pro Shops store.

An ode to "The Queen of Appalachia."

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

Over 20,000 sets of spice shakers reveal the surprisingly telling history of our most basic spices.

A Memphis park where you can walk the whole Mississippi River in one go.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.