Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

A massive collection of rare and antique books in a tiny ranching community in northern Texas.

This beautiful grotto is one of those places where you can't believe you're just outside Austin.

Twenty churches beautifully painted by 19th-century Czech and German immigrants in Texas.

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

On a dusty county road sit the ruins of a ghost town's abandoned church.

Craggy concrete faces are hidden in the walls of this artificial cave along the San Antonio River.

Conflicting markers on its floor tell a tale of two city centers in San Antonio.

A priceless work of art created by the saint's own blood sister hangs in a San Antonio basilica.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It was once used as a classroom to teach mining skills to local high school students.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

An eccentric millionaire's personal curio collection includes at least one shrunken head.

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

The neon signs from Las Vegas' past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.

Mysterious man-made rock piles form an ancient cemetery on this rocky beach in Norway.