Tucked away down this Baytown alley exists a one-of-a-kind art exhibit of technicolor umbrellas.

A decaying concrete oil tanker served as a disposal location for bootleg hootch.

This little dolphin is the first monument dedicated to the LGBTQ+ community in the southern United States.

This memorial marks the devastating day that Texas City was destroyed in a daisy chain of exploding ships.

The deadly but beautiful ornamental oleander was planted all over the island of Galveston after the hurricane of 1900.

This huge repository of local history housed in an old J.C.Penney's is home to the largest model train set in Southeast Texas.

A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.

Eight rare Corvettes are swallowed up by a sinkhole in Kentucky's National Corvette Museum.

A cement mixer-turned-kaleidoscope in downtown Norfolk offers different views of the city.

Housed in the university planetarium, the thousand-strong collection of tiny towelettes includes a used one from the hosts of Car Talk.

The preamble to the U.S. Constitution written entirely from vanity license plates hangs in the Smithsonian museum.

The most accurate timepiece in the world.

A three-story tower of books about Abraham Lincoln is one of the more unusual monuments to the president.

A hidden gem on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.

There's a 12-foot-tall replica of the Washington Monument hidden under a manhole nearby.