Texas’s first suspension bridge is still carrying people across the Brazos.

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

A symbol of Texas pride.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

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

A Texas-sized secondhand bookstore features 54,000 square feet of books, music, and media.

This enthusiast-led facility is the only museum in the country dedicated to the preservation of weather artifacts.

This giant mimetic milk bottle has encouraged Route 66 travelers to choose dairy since 1948.

Very likely the only museum in the world that celebrates the glory of the humble banjo.

The surprising home of the iconic Santa Monica Pier Ferris Wheel.

A museum honoring Oklahoma military service, where you can look into Hitler's mirror and see a Mickey Mouse gas mask.

A crew of die-hard train buffs spent decades turning a defunct stretch of railway in Oklahoma City into a museum now home to over 50 antique and restored trains.

This unusually circular centenarian barn became a Route 66 icon.

The future of roadside attractions is this sci-fi soda mecca that is home to a 66-foot tall neon pop bottle.

A museum and apothecary garden devoted to the history of frontier medicine.

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.

Beating out all other concrete competitors, this massive garden feature's pointy hat has earned it a world record.

An Iowa town celebrates its heritage with the tallest working Dutch windmill in North America.

Ever wanted to can Spam?

The last location where Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson played before their tragic deaths.

An old town theater converted into a celebration of the hobo legacy.

An ornate Art Deco tile mosaic representing Nebraskan life, both modern and prehistoric.

For one month, the fields and skies of Gibbon, Nebraska, come alive with one of the largest gatherings of sandhill cranes in North America.

The origin of the Nixon tapes is rooted in technological incompetence as much as secrecy.