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

Tucked away on an empty wooded lot in suburban Oklahoma City lie the remnants of an abandoned circus camp.

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

Along the historic Mother Road is an old gas station with a secret counterfeiting past.

Sitting in the arguable birthplace of the Wild West, this museum holds the largest collection of bronco busting bric-a-brac in the world.

A popular swimming hole that hides one of America's most deadly diving spots.

An immersive art experience built by local arts collaborative, Factory Obscura, in the building formerly known as The Womb, a psychedelic arts center founded by the frontman of the Flaming Lips.

Twenty churches beautifully painted by 19th-century Czech and German immigrants in Texas.

This little slice of old Jerusalem in Oklahoma is the evolution of a 90 year old passion play.

This beautiful grotto is one of those places where you can't believe you're just outside Austin.

A health museum containing a 27’’½-foot intestine.

Civil War dumping ground for the bodies of terrorized Union sympathizers.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

Scale replica of China's ancient terracotta tomb warriors and Forbidden City are the side project of an eccentric millionaire.

Now abandoned, this East Austin school for the disabled began as the "State Colony for the Feeble-minded."

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

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

An ever-growing collection of rare and strange objects owned by local Arkansas illusionist Maxwell Blade.

Where hills of dirt conceal the burial ground of one of the most powerful ancient Native American societies.

Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.

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

A mysterious light floating in the trees of Arkansas may be a piezoelectric effect.

The 19th-century ruins hide deep in an overgrown forest.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.