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

Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

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

A city park that sits on top of a freeway.

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

A Circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

The collection of 80+ pieces created between the years 1100 and 1500 is intended to be seen, heard, smelled, touched, and tasted.

The giant squid's 27-foot-long corpse lies preserved within a Sarasota aquarium.

A Florida college boasts the world's largest single-site collection of structures designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

A vast array of tropical plants collected by a vacationing couple.

Opened in 1976, this monster-sized version of the fast-food franchise is sometimes called the Epic McD.

Berry Gordy Jr.'s old home was the original headquarters of Motown Record Corporation.

One man's attempt to create an artistic wonder on a run-down block in Detroit.

Controversial tribute to the heavyweight champion boxer who grew up in Detroit.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

One of the few surviving original NASCAR dirt-track speedways.

The scene of the largest surrender of Confederate troops at the end of the American Civil War.

This too-low North Carolina railroad trestle is still a notorious big rig executioner.