Colonial architecture meets urban art in this sprawling open-air gallery.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

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

One of the highest points in Bexar county offers birdseye views of San Antonio and a four-story stone tower.

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

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

The world's oldest hologram gallery and the labyrinthine laser laboratory of a holography pioneer.

The sign to a demolished amusement park now stands in front of a local library.

A tribute to the "toughest woman on the Texas frontier," who survived a famous battle and five husbands.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

The fairy tale castle of the "fairy-tale king."

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.