The largest and best preserved necropolis in the Western Mediterranean.

The longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere takes over three minutes to ride down.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

The final resting place of an outlaw, whose legend grew after death.

An unrealized Taoist palace left abandoned in a Houston suburb.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

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

Scale replica of China's ancient terracotta tomb warriors and Forbidden City are the side project of an eccentric millionaire.

The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.

Decades of discarded bottle caps line this alleyway, a fixture of Texas A&M.

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

This unassuming North Austin neighborhood was built to test the novel idea of home air conditioning.

Some islands... they come, they go, especially on Lake Travis.

Where thousands of slaves passed through the "Door of No Return."

Despite a fraught and controversial history this African island holds a powerful monument to the tragedy of the slave trade.

The subtle interplay of fire and water is hard to ignore at this remote Jamaican spring.

You may get stranded and everyone's peeing in the water, but at least there's cocktails!

Nature took her revenge on the "Wickedest City in the World."