Colorful curls of hand-blown glass form a captivating tower in San Antonio's Central Library.

Locals dubbed it the "Owl Building" because of its bird-like appearance.

This grimly-titled Texas cemetery is all that remains of a Wild West settlement with possibly the worst name.

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

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

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

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

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

These upturned herring boats make nifty storage sheds for fishing goods.

Twice a day this ancient path disappears with the tides, leaving the Holy Island of Lindisfarne out to sea.

This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.

The sign at the garden gate reads: "These Plants Can Kill."

Five sultans and their families rest in eternal splendor, teeming with overlooked beauty and drama.

This remarkably well-preserved Egyptian plinth is pretty well traveled for a giant piece of stone.

Kenyan restaurant is a carnivore's paradise, serving exotic meats at its ultimate 'Beast of a Feast.'

Life and death are on parade at the most reliably perilous site of “the Great Migration.”

Located in Nairobi National Park, this animal orphanage is the oldest of its kind in Kenya.

Get tall with nature's lankiest beasts and their warthog friends at this Kenyan preserve.

A small metropolis of Pueblo cave dwellings have been carved right into the hillside of this national monument.

This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.