Japanese gardens dedicated to the Japanese farmer that refused to throw in the trowel.

This ancient sinkhole-turned-healing-pool is a treasure trove of archeological discoveries and may even be the Fountain of Youth.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

12,000 sq. ft. museum tracing erotic art from antiquity to modern times.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world's largest coastal brick fortresses.

The only swimming pool listed on the National Register of Historic Places is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

The house where the pulp fiction writer and Conan the Barbarian creator lived.

Hidden within a Gulf Coast port city is a wonderfully eclectic museum whose beginnings were housed in a bank window.

The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.

This mountain tram provides stunning views while hanging from a single, steel thread.

255 feet of suds, scrubbers, and blow dryers.

Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.

These boots are made for selfies.

In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.

Decaying military base deactivated in the 70s is now visited by urban explorers and military enthusiasts.

A mysterious drive-in nestled in the forest that leaves little to the imagination.

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

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

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

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

Location of the most powerful laser in the world, and the potential birthplace of tiny stars.

San Diego's most historic and haunted home.

It is locally loved and ridiculed for literally looking like poop.