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

Named for the 39 tribes that live in Oklahoma, this restaurant's menu deliciously highlights local flavors.

An outsider art studio that created a piece of work so popular they had to turn mainstream.

A small museum celebrating the work of a Mississippi artist who had a unique connection with the natural world.

The world's only museum devoted solely to the art and collection of action figures.

Once the smallest park in the national system.

The largest protected conservation area in the Ozarks—a region that stretches into northern Arkansas and southern Missouri.

You can dig up your own crystals in the quartz capital of the world.

Everything in this miniature world was handmade from matches, paperclips, wires, tin cans, and other everyday objects.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

Walk the whole Mississippi River!

Its incredible collection preserves 170 years of sewing machine history.

A former chicken restaurant that doubled as a speakeasy is now a quirky home full of wonderfully strange traditions.

This Colorado gallery is primarily for cars, but its collection also includes quilts, pottery, and more.

An amazing collection of model trains, collectibles, and artifacts that span the last 100 years.

A cabinet of curious mathematical models and old calculators.

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

A little bit Wonkatania, a little bit pink elephant.

A serene temple with stunning stained glass hides in downtown Dallas.

The only airport with a people mover system designed by Walt Disney Imagineering.

The largest underground pedestrian tunnel system in the U.S. mostly caters to the people working in the offices above, but provides a great, air-conditioned way to traverse the city.

Local arts organization founded in a former church.

Artist James Turrell's ode to dawn and dusk on the campus of Rice University.

A synth musician's paradise at the heart of a community responsible for the soundtrack to 'Stranger Things.'