The Old Mill shown in the opening credits of “Gone With the Wind” is actually fairly new, and was never a mill at all.

Yup, that's where the name came from.

This museum is dedicated to the history and design of purses.

Of course the grave of JFK's assassin is surrounded by conspiracy theories.

Decaying military base deactivated in the 70s is now visited by urban explorers and military enthusiasts.

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

The only international border marker within the United States.

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

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

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

Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.

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

A registered historic landmark shrouded in unsettling local legends.

The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

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

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

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

One of the greatest collections of coins in the world is housed in the former mansion of an archeological pioneer.

A sprawling collection of books and manuscripts about ancient Greece that would have put their famed libraries to shame.

The ghost town where the villagers refuse to leave.