One of the highest points in Bexar county offers birdseye views of San Antonio and a four-story stone tower.

Craggy concrete faces are hidden in the walls of this artificial cave along the San Antonio River.

An ivy-covered arch bridge dedicated to Tejano music singer and legend Rosita Fernandez.

This museum showcases the history and contributions of the U.S. Army to the medical industry, both on the battlefield and off.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

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

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

A gorgeous garden oasis with winding paths, stone bridges, and a troubling history.

This shop filled with oddities and knick-knacks is named for a 19th-century charlatan.

An 18th-century Catholic church converted into an eccentric temple of music and bacchanalia.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

A group of artists transformed this desolate city alleyway into an outdoor gallery of street art.

A unique botanical garden housed in three giant geodesic domes.

A place to eat for on-the-run agents and espionage enthusiasts.

The remains of a once-famous hotel that also acted as an artist colony.

This urban oasis is a marvelous meld of music and landscape architecture.

A fantastic place to see murals, and an important location in the history of Toronto's legal street art scene.

This Hindu temple is an architectural marvel designed and built according to ancient Indian principles.

The Victorian-era greenhouse is stuffed with tropical plants, and open 365 days a year.

One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.

A botanically themed auditorium blooms within the world’s last operating double-decker theater.

A collection of human remains, animal body parts, and other macabre curiosities all legally for sale.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.