Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

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

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

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

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

Decades of discarded bottle caps line this alleyway, a fixture of Texas A&M.

A recreated Stonehenge stands in a country field, complete with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries.

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

Controversially claiming the title of world's biggest bass drum, UT's Big Bertha was once made radioactive by the Manhattan Project.

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

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

A National Historic Landmark with a scenic clock tower and park filled with deer and peacocks, plus a military museum.

Established in 1925, Kiddie Park claims to be the oldest amusement park in the U.S. - a cozy little time warp nestled in a shady corner of the modern world.