Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

Known as one of America's most beautiful public restrooms.

A tribute to the "toughest woman on the Texas frontier," who survived a famous battle and five husbands.

This soda factory is one of the last in America to use real cane sugar despite the protestations of Dr Pepper.

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

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

One of Auckland's oldest cemeteries was partially demolished during the construction of a major highway in the 1960s. 

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

A registered historic landmark shrouded in unsettling local legends.

Some of the best pastries in "the Czech heritage capital of Texas" come from a gas station off I-35.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

The former home of one of America's greatest short story writers is home to an annual pun competition.

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

This eclectic Austin curiosity shop is home to all things strange and unusual.

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.

A school-themed restaurant where gastronomy is the core curriculum.

A city park that sits on top of a freeway.

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

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.