This big empty pig is a nostalgic throwback to mid-20th-century Texas barbecue.

The wood bears a hidden love note carved by a young Johnny Cash.

Artist James Turrell's ode to dawn and dusk on the campus of Rice University.

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

There is an unmarked red button hidden over Houston's Buffalo Bayou that is just begging to pushed...

Beer lover's can-covered house.

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

A treasure trove of rare and exquisitely detailed antiques

A house of courtship where the Jazz Age's most storied lovers got their start.

An otherworldly musical haven in The Big Easy.

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

This Birdsill Holly fire hydrant is the remnant of a very different type of hydration innovation.

Parts of the civil rights movement unfolded in this historic eatery, helmed by the "Queen of Creole Cuisine."

The oldest family-run restaurant in the United States is a living museum of New Orleans dining history.

The beautiful, fruit-covered facade hints at this building's former life.

One of the oldest continuously-operated gay bars in the United States is allegedly haunted by Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

All that remains of this small town is its mass grave and a myth of a voodoo priestess who predicted its demise.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

This stunning Brazilian library contains the largest collection of Portuguese texts outside of Portugal itself.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

One man single-handedly dug a road right through a mountain after his wife died due to its interference.

These Stalin-era industrial 'death traps' hang lifeless above the city