An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

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

Foragers once flocked to this big beautiful bayou to hunt for pearls.

This historic Civil War church has survived over a century of racial turmoil but still stands as a reminder of the town's roots.

A registered historic landmark shrouded in unsettling local legends.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

A Texas museum filled with Broncos and Betties.

This memorial marks the devastating day that Texas City was destroyed in a daisy chain of exploding ships.

Remembering the Alamo with a full-scale replica of the 1836 city.

A Texas-sized particle collider that was abandoned due to its Texas-sized budget.

A starship has landed in Texas, a welcome break for weary travelers from a drab stretch of I-35.

This soda factory is one of the last in America to use real cane sugar despite the protestations of Dr Pepper.

A park filled with vibrant mosaics created by more than 300 folk artists.

Giant heads occasionally litter the industrial Houston neighborhood where sculptor David Adickes has his studio.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

There is an unmarked red button hidden over Houston's Buffalo Bayou that is just begging to pushed...

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

A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.