Hidden within a spa in a Texas strip mall is a restaurant specializing in Eastern European foods.

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

One of the oldest hospitals in the Americas is now decorated in hallucinatory murals.

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

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.

A monument dedicated to a local softball team full of clowns.

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

A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.

What was once a summer home next to a waterfall has now become littered with graffiti and children in swimsuits.

Collection of skeletal systems from the "world's leading supplier of osteological specimens."

An immersive art experience built by local arts collaborative, Factory Obscura, in the building formerly known as The Womb, a psychedelic arts center founded by the frontman of the Flaming Lips.

This only museum in the world dedicated solely to mushrooms.

A World War II evacuation tunnel turned into a history display of Croatian state and people.

An eclectic art form practiced by untrained masters is celebrated at this museum in the heart of Zagreb's old Upper Town.

Where the lovelorn find a home for their sentimental keepsakes.

Now harmless, this looming post struck fear into the heart of medieval troublemakers.

A musical instrument played by the sea.

A little stop along the Texas highway where Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean stayed while shooting the 1955 film "Giant."

This quirky outpost and gallery inside a former church is an unexpected trove of handcrafted art.

Minimalist modern art on a repurposed military base in rural Texas.

This old abandoned sign flickers to announce a motel that isn't even there.

This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.

The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.