The collection is housed in an exquisite mansion that makes you feel like you've been transported to an Italian villa.

Local legend says that someone is buried in the trunk.

This historic hotel on Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park has a storied history of gangsters and baseball greats.

Collection of skeletal systems from the "world's leading supplier of osteological specimens."

On a dusty county road sit the ruins of a ghost town's abandoned church.

The tree is thought to be the oldest oak in Texas and was once crowned state champion for its monumental size.

World's smallest skyscraper, the product of a remarkable con.

Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.

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

A gorgeous garden oasis with winding paths, stone bridges, and a troubling history.

An abandoned, decaying sculpture garden built by an eccentric physician in the 1920s now looks more like a forgotten cemetery.

A 2,500-pound wooden nickel makes this woodworking museum easy to spot from the road.

A tiny waterway named after a ghost story.

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

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

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

DIY collection of eclectic holdings.

Life's work of sculptor Elisabet Ney remains preserved in her last studio.

Roadside attraction with more than 1,000 stuffed and mounted animal skins displayed in simulated natural habitats with hand-painted backdrops.

A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.

This underwater old Texas hill town only resurfaces during harsh drought.

This soda factory is one of the last in America to use real cane sugar despite the protestations of Dr Pepper.

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

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.