The oldest restaurant in Portland serves fiery coffee cocktails and an astounding amount of turkey.

Tiny horses tethered to antique rings are scattered around the city.

This private mansion turned Catholic bishop’s home is an iconic Galveston building.

This tiny, hurricane-resistant house in Galveston is one of the city's most notable architectural oddities.

A synth musician's paradise at the heart of a community responsible for the soundtrack to 'Stranger Things.'

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

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

This simple frog painting created by musician Daniel Johnston embodies the spirit of Austin.

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

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.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

Local arts organization founded in a former church.

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

Beer lover's can-covered house.

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.

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

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

Third time's a charm, or in this case, two testicles are.

This grisly effigy displays an early Christian martyr who was skinned alive and beheaded.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.