An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.

An oil baron's wild paradise and the winner of an ill-fated air race.

A mythical chimera first sculpted in 1936 as a mix of the main animals of Texas livestock.

A registered historic landmark shrouded in unsettling local legends.

When he found his hometown was no more, Lowell Davis decided to recreate a "new" ghost town from scratch.

This eclectic Austin curiosity shop is home to all things strange and unusual.

This innocent-looking townhome is actually a subway exit.

The oldest purpose-built cinema still in operation also houses a museum of movie memorabilia.

A starship has landed in Texas, a welcome break for weary travelers from a drab stretch of I-35.

When you can afford only half a road, you build only half a road.

A college in rural Kansas founded to prepare the country for an impending World War III.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

An exquisite and eclectic selection of African masks stands out within a massive woodcarving marketplace.

One of New York's most iconic authors is strangely honored by this Oklahoma park.

The world's tallest statue of an American hero.

A Zulu warrior is buried far from home, near the very northern border of Zambia.

The stunningly blue waters of these beautiful caves also have a violent past.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

The man who wasn't there.

The final resting place of Captain William Becknell, the Old West frontiersman who forged the Santa Fe Trail.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

From pre-war whiskey cocktails to prohibition-era speakeasy secrecy, this bar has seen it all.

Where Santa Claus held up a Texas bank and started a statewide manhunt.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.