This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

The strange and snarky traditions of the lumber industry's fraternal order began with five men waiting for a train here in Arkansas.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

A serene temple with stunning stained glass hides in downtown Dallas.

This small museum tells the story of Fort Worth's first and largest superstore.

A little slice of Florida face-in-a-hole kitsch, unexpectedly located in a small New Mexico town.

A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.

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

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

The final resting place of infamous outlaw Clyde and Marvin Barrow.

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

Exceptional Nepalese food can be found in a Texas gas station.

Site of a former hidden treehouse in New Orleans.

Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.

A 19th-century Gothic, castle-like statehouse by the Mississippi River.

All that remains of this small town is its mass grave and a myth of a voodoo priestess who predicted its demise.

This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.

Made of giant chains and hung with shackles, this iron cross honors those unknowns who perished under American slavery.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

According to one local tradition, the entrance to the Voodoo underworld can be found in New Orleans through seven gates scattered throughout the city's French Quarter.

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

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

Walk the whole Mississippi River!