A school-themed restaurant where gastronomy is the core curriculum.

"Dallas’s pretty much only carnivorous plant gallery."

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

The underground sanctuary of a mysterious ancient cult.

Installed in an act of one-upsmanship, the annual sundial in this church is also a symbolic victory for the Gregorian calendar.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

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

The final resting place of Captain William Becknell, the Old West frontiersman who forged the Santa Fe Trail.

This sculpture of a bowler hat is complemented by a matching umbrella a few blocks away.