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

If New Orleans is the birthplace of the "cocktail," why does their own museum of cocktail memorabilia beg to differ?

The state's oldest continuously operating museum houses more than 5,000 Civil War artifacts.

This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.

Storyville was New Orleans' historic red light district and hotbed of jazz music, sometimes referred to simply as "The District."

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.

Site of a former hidden treehouse in New Orleans.

A pink cottage covered in hearts served as a haven and a resting place for LGBTQ activists.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

A starship has landed in Texas, a welcome break for weary travelers from a drab stretch of I-35.

It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

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

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

A popular swimming hole that hides one of America's most deadly diving spots.

The only museum dedicated to the history of the "Magic Lantern," a medieval slide projector.

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

A master plumber has turned his love of art and toilets into a folk museum that's not taking the piss.

A decaying concrete oil tanker served as a disposal location for bootleg hootch.

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

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

Local arts organization founded in a former church.

At the "Garage Mahal" in Houston, car culture is about more than just driving.