A tall smoke stack and boarded-up buildings are all that's left of the pioneering plant.

A gorgeous garden oasis with winding paths, stone bridges, and a troubling history.

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

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

This tiny, hurricane-resistant house in Galveston is one of the city's most notable architectural oddities.

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

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

Is this 47.7-mile stretch of highway the longest straight road in the United States?

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

This ancient settlement contains some of the largest earthen mounds in North America.

The Quapaw tribe supplies the meat and produce in this Oklahoma casino restaurant.

This historic motel standing at the "crossroads of America" offers a radio in every room and was saved by local protesters.

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

The remnants of the base where US Army troops learned how to fight in extreme conditions.

A museum packed with instruments, lyrics, and other mementos of the American folk icon.

An antique Beechcraft airplane serves as a giant windsock for people driving through the blustery open country of eastern Wyoming.

In the 1950s, two women saved this grand theater in the Colorado mountains from demolition.

This old train trestle and collapsed tunnel once allowed the railroad to negotiate the steep slopes of the Colorado Rockies.

At one time this small mining village was the highest town in America but now it sits abandoned while the mine churns on.

At the tallest peak in Colorado, an electrifying mix of thin air, lightning, and rivalry.

Four ionic columns from the Treasury Department building ended up in a park in Nebraska.

The deserted railroad town had a last gasp as a ghost town attraction before being abandoned for good.

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.