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

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.

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

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

DIY collection of eclectic holdings.

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.

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

In Paris, Texas, even Jesus wears cowboy boots.

A mysterious local has been dressing the child's grave for decades.

This opulent Pueblo Deco movie palace melds Art Deco and Native American motifs.

In 1967, murder and mayhem disrupted the tranquility along this quiet stretch of Old Route 66.

A museum devoted entirely to the rattlesnakes and snake-related art.

These ruins of a pre-Columbian cliff village are among the most beautiful and well preserved in New Mexico.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

This mausoleum is the final resting place of one of St. Louis's richest and most tragic families.

The first rural cemetery west of the Mississippi is home to the elaborate tombs of St. Louis' local beer barons.

A historic house in St. Louis was plagued by a series of suicides committed by family members involved in a successful brewery.

A suspended garden, now gone, once hung in the middle of this abandoned church.

The world's largest Our Lady of Guadalupe statue overlooks this Ohio sanctuary.

A lost cemetery stands forgotten on a hilltop, known only to the older residents of Pomeroy.