Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

A tiny waterway named after a ghost story.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

The world's second-longest burning light bulb.

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

A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.

Legend has it the commander of the defenders drew a fateful line in the dirt with his sword just before the final battle.

The quirky gift from West Berlin for the 1968 World's Fair still stands in Hemisfair Park.

Two small markers remember the Alamo's feline protectors.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

This hidden sculpture garden full of Wild West art is one of San Antonio's best-kept secrets.

An ivy-covered arch bridge dedicated to Tejano music singer and legend Rosita Fernandez.

An antique horse-drawn hearse provided French luxury for the dead in this Texan town.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

Colorful curls of hand-blown glass form a captivating tower in San Antonio's Central Library.

A little bit Wonkatania, a little bit pink elephant.

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

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

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

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

In Twickenham sits a small whitewashed castle that inspired Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein.'

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.