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This museum is dedicated to the history and design of purses.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

The legend of a local monster still haunts this small town.

$10,000 won in a poker game in 1884 allowed James Draughon to build this intriguing home.

The largest public collection of roses in the United States.

A peg-legged tightrope walker did not reveal his name as he was dying, and so he was buried as “Rope Walker."

A serene temple with stunning stained glass hides in downtown Dallas.

A fruit-loving town welcomes visitors with a giant melon set against the sky.

A popular swimming hole that hides one of America's most deadly diving spots.

A tiny chapel clings to a precipice above Germany’s gemstone capital.

An 18-foot-tall troll sculpture, made from recycled wood and materials found in nature.

This Austin music venue is an homage to a legendary figure in the local blues scene.

An entire subdivision was accidentally built on a flood plain, resulting in its eventual demolition—but the streets are still there.

A tiny graveyard with a mysterious past.

Austin’s local mountain isn’t really a mountain at all.

To honor a beloved Austin radio DJ a neighborhood bridge has been covered in a loving mosaic.

A high-octane shrine to the greatest Texans who ever lived.

This unassuming North Austin neighborhood was built to test the novel idea of home air conditioning.

This stone windmill marks an old, mysterious homestead in what is now central Austin.

Just like the real 36th president of the United States, animatronic LBJ amuses visitors with jokes and stories.

A small island hides in plain sight on Austin's Lady Bird Lake.

Some islands... they come, they go, especially on Lake Travis.

The upstairs reading room is packed with millions of rare books, literary manuscripts, and historical treasures.

Life's work of sculptor Elisabet Ney remains preserved in her last studio.