A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

A small town museum honors local WWII veterans and the queen of pop who put it on the map.

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

There is an unmarked red button hidden over Houston's Buffalo Bayou that is just begging to pushed...

The second-largest ceremonial mound in the United States is an artificial hill that is loosely shaped like a pentagon.

The only international border marker within the United States.

Giant heads occasionally litter the industrial Houston neighborhood where sculptor David Adickes has his studio.

One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.

A Cajun-style Christmas on the river also involves sky-high pyres and explosives.

World's largest precision optical instrument used to detect Einstein's elusive gravity waves.

This tiny, hurricane-resistant house in Galveston is one of the city's most notable architectural oddities.

This racially troublesome eatery thought a new coat of paint could erase its offensive connotations.

A grandiose octagonal home crowned by a large dome stands out among the antebellum mansions.

This memorial marks the devastating day that Texas City was destroyed in a daisy chain of exploding ships.

The deadly but beautiful ornamental oleander was planted all over the island of Galveston after the hurricane of 1900.

The LSU mascot lived on the college campus in one of the most impressive tiger habitats in the country.

A mysterious find dredged from Louisiana waters.

A 19th-century Gothic, castle-like statehouse by the Mississippi River.

A decaying concrete oil tanker served as a disposal location for bootleg hootch.

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

A swamp and garden tour featuring local wildlife and exotic botanical specimens from around the world.

A miscalculation turns a very shallow freshwater lake into a very deep saltwater lake.

This railroad overpass is said to be home to a murderous goat-man whose very legend has led to very real deaths.

America's oldest archaeological site or a muddled case of wishful thinking.