A former poultry store that looks like a giant duck and is one of the "seven wonders" of Long Island.

How a friendly mining-school rivalry, two adventurous students, and 400 tons of limestone created a Platteville landmark.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

Sleep where gangsters fell amidst smoke and flame, with nary a bullethole to show for the legendary struggle.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.

One of the last Art Deco gas station still standing in Dallas.

The preserved wheel ruts of El Camino Real de los Tejas, an 18th-century Spanish colonial road across America's Southwest.

The first passenger cable car in the world.

America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.

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

The world's tallest statue of an American hero.

An unrealized Taoist palace left abandoned in a Houston suburb.

The only airport with a people mover system designed by Walt Disney Imagineering.

A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.

A park filled with vibrant mosaics created by more than 300 folk artists.

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

Artist James Turrell's ode to dawn and dusk on the campus of Rice University.

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

Local arts organization founded in a former church.

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

A shrine to the royal lord of all cacti.

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