A fruit-loving town welcomes visitors with a giant melon set against the sky.

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

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

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

After 97 years of constant vigilance from the dome of the Texas State Capitol, the original Goddess of Liberty retired to a life of climate-controlled leisure.

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

Some 80,000 Delft Blue tiles line the inside of this Amsterdam walkway.

Beauty and history abound in this remote West Texas canyon.

Measuring approximately 200 feet long, Swampy is the world's largest alligator-shaped building.

This abandoned NASA launch site is now a memorial to a trio of astronauts who were killed there.

The quirky gift from West Berlin for the 1968 World's Fair still stands in Hemisfair Park.

This little-known hero has been protecting "The Fens" for close to 400 years, and now from its most powerful challenger yet: climate change.

The control tower at the historic weapons range is now available as a highly unusual vacation rental.

A rocky outcrop where monks hid their most holy relic while escaping Danish invaders.

This 16th-century tower house has a little hidden secret and a connection to an Apollo astronaut.

A stone copper was sculpted on the wall of the Carlisle Cathedral to honor a local hero.

The remains of a remote village that once housed over 1,200 dam workers and their families.

Stonehenge has nothing on Castlerigg’s views.

The site of a dress rehearsal for D-Day that ended in disaster.

Supremely flaky treats await at Amadou Ly’s boulangerie and patisserie.

The impeccably spiced roast pork buns at this bakery are worth the wait.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

An uber-secure, windowless tower of doom in the center of Manhattan is an NSA spyscraper.

The façade of this building looks like a bingo board, but it's really a giant clock by a famed graphic designer.