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

A tall smoke stack and boarded-up buildings are all that's left of the pioneering plant.

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

The wood bears a hidden love note carved by a young Johnny Cash.

An abandoned, decaying sculpture garden built by an eccentric physician in the 1920s now looks more like a forgotten cemetery.

One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.

A health museum containing a 27’’½-foot intestine.

This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.

A wacky, UFO-shaped house in a suburban neighborhood.

Local arts organization founded in a former church.

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

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

An oddities shop packed with twisted treasures inspired by Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe.

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

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

This historic hotel on Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park has a storied history of gangsters and baseball greats.

No one is sure why this mysterious tradition started.

This unique tower has been home to malaria-fighting bats for 100 years.

A peaceful place in the woods where everything is a work in progress.

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

An extravagant western hotel where every floor is the "ground floor."

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

This ostentatious Italianate palace of an Oklahoma billionaire is filled with several themed mini-museums.

The Ozarks' strangest dwelling.