This narrow shop in the East Village hosts a matchmaking service for the new millennium.

Unique antiquarian shop specializing in globes, maps, and prints.

This collection of bronze hands comes from astronauts, presidents, baseball greats, and more.

The end of times arrives, at least for the fish in the O.C. Fisher Reservoir.

This historical air terminal in Houston is slowly becoming an aviation museum dedicated to the city's aeronautical history.

A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.

Minimalist modern art on a repurposed military base in rural Texas.

Civil War dumping ground for the bodies of terrorized Union sympathizers.

The summer home of the largest colony of bats in the world.

A Texas-sized particle collider that was abandoned due to its Texas-sized budget.

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

This grimly-titled Texas cemetery is all that remains of a Wild West settlement with possibly the worst name.

This small town Texas cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.

This Texas windmill field celebrates the power and majesty of the very winds that blow.

In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.

A small car graveyard sits in the shadow of the famous Cadillac Ranch.

This memorial marks the devastating day that Texas City was destroyed in a daisy chain of exploding ships.

These half-buried combine harvesters just off Route 66 are an homage to the Cadillac Ranch.

In Paris, Texas, even Jesus wears cowboy boots.

Twenty churches beautifully painted by 19th-century Czech and German immigrants in Texas.

The man who wasn't there.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.

A peg-legged tightrope walker did not reveal his name as he was dying, and so he was buried as “Rope Walker."