A gem in the small Missouri town where Winston Churchill coined the term "Iron Curtain" and effectively began the Cold War.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

A health museum containing a 27’’½-foot intestine.

An unusual bed & breakfast made of papercrete.

One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

$10,000 won in a poker game in 1884 allowed James Draughon to build this intriguing home.

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.

The petroleum industry brings you the joys of hydrocarbons and largest collection of antique oil rigs in the world.

Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

A Texas museum filled with Broncos and Betties.

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

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

Scale replica of China's ancient terracotta tomb warriors and Forbidden City are the side project of an eccentric millionaire.

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

A National Historic Landmark with a scenic clock tower and park filled with deer and peacocks, plus a military museum.

Life's work of sculptor Elisabet Ney remains preserved in her last studio.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

Witness to many historic moments in early Texas history.

This sacred cavern, 400 feet deep, is home to millions of bats and an ancient burial ground.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

Soldiers honored the beloved Pat with a special grave.

A mysterious drive-in nestled in the forest that leaves little to the imagination.