This museum explores the history of the book, from scrolls to mass-produced objects through tools, stories, and massive cast-iron binding machinery (some of it operational).

A still functioning vaudeville carousel that has operated for over a century boasts a colorful menagerie and past.

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

The "last unrestored grand mansion of Savannah" is now a cramped, mouldering maze of antiques.

Home to a full-scale replica of the Ezekiel Airship, an aircraft that allegedly flew in 1902—a year before the Wright brothers took to the skies over Kitty Hawk.

Foragers once flocked to this big beautiful bayou to hunt for pearls.

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

The upstairs reading room is packed with millions of rare books, literary manuscripts, and historical treasures.

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

It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

A 2,500-pound wooden nickel makes this woodworking museum easy to spot from the road.

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

Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.

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

One man's remarkable private collection of art from around the world.

This architectural beauty is the home to a personal collection of more than 600 examples of mechanical musical instruments.

At night, bats patrol this magnificent 18th-century space in search of book-eating pests.

One of the largest Roman settlements in Portugal.

What looks like a crashed Zeppelin is actually a bright, airy reading room perched atop a modern museum.

The last municipal pneumatic post system in the world was in operation for over 100 years, and may run again.

Microscopic scenes; some call it novelty, some call it art.

A museum of alchemy and a basement laboratory all housed in an ancient building in a Gothic tower.