A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

This fountain was commissioned by a mother grieving over her son's passing.

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

On the outskirts of San Antonio, a small bridge is said to be the home of a mysterious local legend known as the "Donkey Lady."

Craggy concrete faces are hidden in the walls of this artificial cave along the San Antonio River.

Legend has it the commander of the defenders drew a fateful line in the dirt with his sword just before the final battle.

Two small markers remember the Alamo's feline protectors.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

This site honors the end of a 100-year boundary dispute between the United States and Mexico—all started by a river's shifting course.

A community-funded monument to kindness in the face of life's difficulties.

A curious statue fit for a mad tea party.

This little dolphin is the first monument dedicated to the LGBTQ+ community in the southern United States.

Known as one of America's most beautiful public restrooms.

Conflicting markers on its floor tell a tale of two city centers in San Antonio.

The second largest roadrunner in the world stands 11 feet tall in his West Texas town.

This grimly-titled Texas cemetery is all that remains of a Wild West settlement with possibly the worst name.

A little bit Wonkatania, a little bit pink elephant.

Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.

Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

The highest point in Alabama was almost completely deforested, but is now home to protected towers and trees.

An easily overlooked memorial to a Ukrainian famine-genocide that killed over 4 million people.

Decades before the scandal, this staircase on the river was a literal "water gate."