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

Amtrak's least-used stop in the entire country sits in a tiny West Texas town.

At this rural museum, visitors can experience "Boomtown U.S.A.," a lifelike re-creation of an oil boomtown in the 1930s.

This magical oasis in East Texas is one of the most biodiverse acres in the country.

The only airport with a people mover system designed by Walt Disney Imagineering.

A group of college students hauled a desk up a mountain more than 40 years ago. The notebooks inside have become a makeshift time capsule.

An Americana dreamscape.

Your one-stop-shop for antique tractor shows and emotional paintings of children championing livestock.

A small museum dedicated to the king of Western swing.

This Texas home and garden was the masterpiece of a British portrait painter.

The largest underground pedestrian tunnel system in the U.S. mostly caters to the people working in the offices above, but provides a great, air-conditioned way to traverse the city.

A shrine to the royal lord of all cacti.

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.

An oasis of lilies cultivated by the "Indiana Jones of Water Lilies."

Constructed in 1859 as a general store and post office, the store is still used to this day and was featured in the Walking Dead series.

An immense cave that has served as an outlaw's treasure trove, an underground dance hall, a nuclear fallout shelter, and much more.

The final resting place of Captain William Becknell, the Old West frontiersman who forged the Santa Fe Trail.

In Houston's airport, a cow is properly equipped to jump over the moon.

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

A city park that sits on top of a freeway.

A musical sanctuary that preserves gospel’s Golden Age is tucked inside a library at Baylor University.

A few times a day, you can see an animatronic cowboy shoot-out.

The largest public collection of roses in the United States.

Seven flags adorn this Texas museum, one for each of the powers that have ruled the area.