This high desert botanical garden is a unique display of Northern New Mexico's geology.

Setting this massive marionette aflame rids Santa Fe of doom and gloom for another year.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.

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

The "world’s largest honky-tonk" also has its own indoor rodeo arena.

A fruit-loving town welcomes visitors with a giant melon set against the sky.

No one is sure why this mysterious tradition started.

This unique tower has been home to malaria-fighting bats for 100 years.

An abandoned mine where dreams of quicksilver trickled away over 75 years ago.

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

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

Foragers once flocked to this big beautiful bayou to hunt for pearls.

Civil War dumping ground for the bodies of terrorized Union sympathizers.

A spring-fed pool so deep it's used for scuba diving as well as swimming.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

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

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

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

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.