The saga of the massive nut begins and ends in Texas.

An ivy-covered arch bridge dedicated to Tejano music singer and legend Rosita Fernandez.

The quirky gift from West Berlin for the 1968 World's Fair still stands in Hemisfair Park.

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.

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

Modern technology and live displays tell the story of the Pacific during WWII for the Internet generation.

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

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

Twenty churches beautifully painted by 19th-century Czech and German immigrants in Texas.

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

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

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

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

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

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

This quirky piece of naval artillery has been deafening Canadians for over a century.

A collection of more than 12,000 shoes, displayed in a building shaped like a shoebox.

A working steam clock, one of only a few in the world, located in Vancouver's Victorian Gastown.

One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.

The awe-inspiring ship from the golden era of cruising has an incomparable history and a reputation as one of the world’s most haunted places.

The century-old bell and clock tower at UC Berkeley is the third-tallest in the world, and has fossils.

An vast warehouse of everyday treasures in Berkeley, CA.

A decommissioned Naval base now rents itself out for people who want to blow stuff up.