A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

The mummified relic of St. Antoninus.

Memorials at a Florence railway station remember the citizens who were deported from Italy and sent to extermination camps.

Unusual house, in an unusual neighborhood, home to some very unusual peanuts.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

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

This eclectic, mosaic-clad home includes a bamboo ping-pong loft and a "Whispermaphones" intercom.

Roadside Americana, fairy tale characters, and Austin quirkiness come together at this magical course in the heart of Texas' capital city.

A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.

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

A Bhutanese temple gifted from the isolated Himalayan kingdom is now a surprising cultural gem located at the University of Texas at El Paso.

The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.

A giant "X" symbolizes the blood spilled from the brutal Juárez drug wars.

El Paso's only historic house museum is an adobe mansion built by a prominent multicultural borderlands family.

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

The disdain for this dysfunctional dam is reflected in a giant pair of scissors painted on the concrete face.

Explore more than 130,000 new and used books in the "world's largest outdoor bookstore."

Make sweet music as you walk through this interactive sonic sculpture.

Rusty industrial city full of oxidized distillation towers.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

This Route 66 classic sports a giant fiberglass rabbit that you can ride.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

The state bird of New Mexico, constructed entirely out of garbage.

This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.