A beloved Chicago music venue offering cold beer and lots of “Friendly."

First planned industrial community in the United States.

A hot dog stand where the heads are just as hot as the dogs.

The world's only known button museum.

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

This theatre was made famous after Lee Harvey Oswald was captured inside watching a film.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

This homegrown adoption center offers a wonderland of feline companionship.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

A local dive where religious kitsch, Southern identity, and queer culture collide.

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

This big empty pig is a nostalgic throwback to mid-20th-century Texas barbecue.

A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.

An abandoned, decaying sculpture garden built by an eccentric physician in the 1920s now looks more like a forgotten cemetery.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

These massive mitts are made of 30 tons of devotional bronze.

The fifth tallest statue in the United States is a shirtless monument to the oil worker.

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause.