An ivy-covered arch bridge dedicated to Tejano music singer and legend Rosita Fernandez.

The upstairs reading room is packed with millions of rare books, literary manuscripts, and historical treasures.

This is probably not the Target you're looking for.

This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.

Remembering the Alamo with a full-scale replica of the 1836 city.

A National Historic Landmark with a scenic clock tower and park filled with deer and peacocks, plus a military museum.

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

A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

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

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the "Golden Age" of the American automobile.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

One of the longest water bridges in the world was built over a supposedly haunted swamp in Louisiana.

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

A Hawaiian stairway to heaven—that you can't climb.

A unique set of caves that spits waves back out into the ocean.

The grand marquee of this abandoned Hawaiian theater remembers the building's elegant past.