Nestled in the heart of a Texas town is a dreamy secret garden dating back to the 1940s.

This candy-striped tower is the farthest east you can go in the United States.

A decidedly out of place statue memorializes the Blues Brothers characters at this water bottling plant.

The grave of Mary Nasson is shrouded by witchy legends.

Every year, a Louisiana town remembers a brief Civil War truce inspired by Masonic brotherhood.

The state's oldest continuously operating museum houses more than 5,000 Civil War artifacts.

An extravagant western hotel where every floor is the "ground floor."

For divers and music lovers, the Florida Keys' Underwater Music Festival provides the best of both worlds.

Before it was abandoned and left to rust alongside the road, this riverboat starred in a John Wayne movie.

In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

This mountain tram provides stunning views while hanging from a single, steel thread.

When you can afford only half a road, you build only half a road.

Circus cemetery for all the “showmen under God’s big top.”

An underwater statue of Christ blesses the depths off Key Largo.

An overlooked monument to the celebrity gangster who helped put the sin in Sin City.

This museum remembers an apocalyptic cult that became more famous for baseball than religious radicalism.

A restored, one-room African-American schoolhouse in the diva's hometown now preserves the legacy of its most famous student.

A blacklight mini-golf fever dream pays tribute to the iconic rock band.

A registered historic landmark shrouded in unsettling local legends.

An L.A. traffic island where the faces of locals have been carved into massive granite eggs.

A mythical chimera first sculpted in 1936 as a mix of the main animals of Texas livestock.

This two-room shotgun shack in Tupelo is the birthplace of a King.

A wild west scene starring life-sized wooden statues hides in the trees behind Pierce College.