These boots are made for selfies.

Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.

This former Texas landfill is flush with 300 million-year-old fossils, all fit for the taking.

This underwater old Texas hill town only resurfaces during harsh drought.

Over 100 million years ago, beach-bound dinosaurs left permanent marks on San Antonio's landscape.

A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

The summer home of the largest colony of bats in the world.

This sacred cavern, 400 feet deep, is home to millions of bats and an ancient burial ground.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

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

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the "Golden Age" of the American automobile.

A popular swimming hole that hides one of America's most deadly diving spots.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

After the parade, students throw their beads on the tree hoping for good luck on exams.

Site of a former hidden treehouse in New Orleans.

This Louisiana folk art gallery is a gnarled collection of driftwood homonculi.

Installed as a beacon of hope for a hurricane-racked island, the statue had to be moved multiple times due to the eroding coast.

A calm and comfortable place to hang out with cats and kittens up for adoption.