A famous flea market artist's studio that's full of odds and ends.

This giant pocket watch is the third iteration of a local landmark that has been standing just off the Santa Fe Plaza for over 100 years.

A natural formation that resembles a camel resting in the New Mexico desert.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.

One man handcrafts "the best sake made outside of Japan" in a tiny desert town on Route 66.

Eat like pre-Columbian Native Americans in this New Mexico restaurant within the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.

A school-themed restaurant where gastronomy is the core curriculum.

Texas's oldest bakery serves authentic German pastries, including legendary strudel.

The saga of the massive nut begins and ends in Texas.

Exceptional Nepalese food can be found in a Texas gas station.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

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.

A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the "Golden Age" of the American automobile.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

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

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.