Official museum, hall of fame, and repository of the Texas Rangers.

These former theme park figures have a new lease on life outside a water plant-turned-restaurant.

An adorably sweet display of sculpted Precious Moments figurines.

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

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

255 feet of suds, scrubbers, and blow dryers.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

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

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

This golf ball–shaped former desert real estate office now houses a UFO museum.

What is the Thing?

A 19th-century cabin built into a hollowed-out Sequoia tree.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

Four hundred granite steps were built into this massive rock by the National Park Service.

This small shack near the entrance to Sequoia National Park has been in almost continuous operation for the last century.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

A water tower shaped like a giant coffee pot looms over a small Swedish village in Central California.

The highest point in Texas is capped by a big silver pyramid.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

A blacklight journey through a celestial art exhibit.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

This is one really big nut.