A natural rock formation believed to be a cure-all.

Circus cemetery for all the “showmen under God’s big top.”

Where Santa Claus held up a Texas bank and started a statewide manhunt.

The house where the pulp fiction writer and Conan the Barbarian creator lived.

This gas station offers wine tastings and craft beer.

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

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

A 2,500-pound wooden nickel makes this woodworking museum easy to spot from the road.

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

The highest point in Alabama was almost completely deforested, but is now home to protected towers and trees.

This architectural triumph is the only Frank Lloyd Wright house in Alabama.

The highest point in Mississippi is a hilltop that was once used to bombard a nearby town with artillery.

The juke joint where legendary soul artists ate, drank, and made merry.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

An unexpected but incredible collection of wildlife dioramas spanning rainforests, swamps, forests, and plains.

Three markers installed over the course of 140 years mark the point where Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma converge.

The final resting place of an outlaw, whose legend grew after death.

Some of the best pastries in "the Czech heritage capital of Texas" come from a gas station off I-35.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

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

At the "Garage Mahal" in Houston, car culture is about more than just driving.

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

One of the last remaining venues on the Old Chitlin’ Circuit is a kaleidoscopic music hall at the end of a dirt road.