Located in the world's highest-altitude Dark Sky Community, this observatory welcomes amateur and professional astronomers alike.

Images chiseled into the basalt here date back an estimated 300 years.

This legendary urban waterfall creates a dazzling display of rainbows.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

These unique volcanic rock formations offer the perfect opportunity to camp and hike.

This sundial indicates the time based on where you stand within it.

Thousands of pieces of art have been carved into the rock at the site of an ancient volcanic eruption.

Thousands of mounted insects, and some live ones, hide within an otherwise ordinary shopping mall.

This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

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

The creek where a shark wreaked terror upon New Jersey, and served as the inspiration for "Jaws."

Search for traces of the dinosaurs that roamed here more than 90 million years ago.

Human remains in varying states of decay are strewn about this Texas State facility for scientific study.

This eclectic Austin curiosity shop is home to all things strange and unusual.

The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.

Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million Mexican free-tail bats.

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

Over 100 million years ago, beach-bound dinosaurs left permanent marks on San Antonio's landscape.

It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.

This former Texas landfill is flush with 300 million-year-old fossils, all fit for the taking.

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

A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.