A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

Two small markers remember the Alamo's feline protectors.

This hidden sculpture garden full of Wild West art is one of San Antonio's best-kept secrets.

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

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

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

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

The man who wasn't there.

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

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

Very likely the only museum in the world that celebrates the glory of the humble banjo.

Travel through the hidden underbelly of the city in colorful tunnels filled with art and history exhibits.

An old spiral fire escape dangles above a public courtyard in Midtown Oklahoma City.

Sitting in the arguable birthplace of the Wild West, this museum holds the largest collection of bronco busting bric-a-brac in the world.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

The only Native American comic shop in the world.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

This public square capitalized on a single Eagles reference to bring some life back to an Arizona town.

This Route 66 classic sports a giant fiberglass rabbit that you can ride.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

Experience a charming 1930's version of "infotainment."

The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.

A giant open-air sculpture made of over 200 full-sized boats.

Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.