The LSU mascot lived on the college campus in one of the most impressive tiger habitats in the country.

A Muppet museum in small-town Mississippi honors the roots of Jim Henson's most beloved creation.

The only place to see live frogs don pigtails and top hats, then eat their scrumptious legs.

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

This historic hotel on Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park has a storied history of gangsters and baseball greats.

This quirky Arkansas wax museum does not shy away from the macabre and the grotesque.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

A collection of massive stacked rocks in Texas includes a snarky note on the benefits of modern technology.

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

In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.

The biggest drug trafficking passage between Mexico and the U.S.

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

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

A health museum containing a 27’’½-foot intestine.

This seaworthy collection was sparked by one man's passion for sailing.

The world's tallest statue of an American hero.

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

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

Official museum, hall of fame, and repository of the Texas Rangers.

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

Resting place of the Texas A&M canine mascots, who watch the game from the grave with their own miniature scoreboard.

A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.