This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

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

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

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

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

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

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

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

This chicken coop pays homage to a classic architectural style made famous throughout the southern United States.

Dental instruments from the illustrious history of American dentistry.

Dedicated to the history of the health sciences.

Visitors come from all over to bring gifts and tokens to the grave of Alice, who is thought to have died of a broken heart.

This small museum dedicated to the painful memory of segregation is essentially a time capsule.

An old train trestle re-imagined as an Egyptian obelisk.

On Hilton Head Island this bronze King of the Sea rules all things briny—and lets you know if you’re late for lunch.

The only working large-scale tea plantation in the United States.

This natural wonderland is a unique chance to explore a Carolina bay, a mysterious geological formation of unknown origin.

Granite outcropping that the state's tourism bureau doesn't promote because of its delicate ecosystem.

A hobby born from insomnia has turned into a hangar full of objects that have been be-buttoned by the Button King.

Paths are maintained, but trees have taken over plots.