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

A master plumber has turned his love of art and toilets into a folk museum that's not taking the piss.

A park filled with vibrant mosaics created by more than 300 folk artists.

Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million Mexican free-tail bats.

This beautiful grotto is one of those places where you can't believe you're just outside Austin.

A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

These gleaming gypsum sand dunes are the second-largest in North America.

Home to Hollywood history and a very special salt crystal.

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

On the edge of grassland in northeastern Colorado, these rock formations are some of the few remnants of a high plain that has eroded away over millions of years.

The lowest point in South Dakota and the source of the Minnesota River.

One of the smallest towns in the United States.

An impressive collection of over 50,000 minerals including moon rock from the Apollo 17 mission.

A Colorado store that specializes in all things spiritual, metaphysical, and witchy.

One of the oldest continuously operating amusement parks in the U.S. is an open-air museum of Art Deco and neon lights.

A beautiful combination of living flora with preserved bones covers the shelves of this shop.

This Chinese-style quartz sundial was saved in its final hour.

A collection of fading fantasy tchotchkes lines this dirt road in the Colorado wilderness.

One of the few surviving Panama Canal steam shovels stands outside a tiny Colorado mining museum.

Despite its name, this route in southern Utah offers a heavenly day trip.

An arsenic-filled pool in the Grand Canyon takes on the appearance of a giant, overflowing pumpkin.

Witnessing the might of this dessert-colored desert waterfall is a rare, powerful treat.

This popular pitstop lives up to its name.