One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

This monumental Jesus is often referred to as "Our Milk Carton With Arms."

An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.

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

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

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

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

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

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

American bison herd descending directly from a Bronx Zoo breeding program that saved the species from extinction.

Final resting place of Geronimo, Quanah Parker, and the first atomic gun ever fired.

No matter what the plaque under this massive legume says, this is not the world's largest peanut.

World's smallest skyscraper, the product of a remarkable con.

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

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

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

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

A recreated Stonehenge stands in a country field, complete with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries.

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

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.