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

An entire subdivision was accidentally built on a flood plain, resulting in its eventual demolition—but the streets are still there.

It may take some time to locate, but it's sure to warm even a heart of stone.

Giant heads occasionally litter the industrial Houston neighborhood where sculptor David Adickes has his studio.

A serene temple with stunning stained glass hides in downtown Dallas.

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

For 150 years one family has been producing the iconic hot sauce on a bayou island made of salt.

Located in the place where the Columbia space shuttle came down, a museum-memorial that is both touching and informative.

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

This Texas home and garden was the masterpiece of a British portrait painter.

It's said this geological anomaly was caused when the Devil took a bite out of the Irish mountainside.

It's where the final scene of the beloved Tom Hanks movie was filmed.

A wacky, UFO-shaped house in a suburban neighborhood.

The end of times arrives, at least for the fish in the O.C. Fisher Reservoir.

This lake sits on an estimated 4 million tons of salt.

Park filled with machinery that drove the southern agriculture and oil industries forward.

Inmates dig the graves at the largest prison cemetery in the U.S., the final resting place of both cowboys and Indians.

Located in a remote part of a Louisiana wildlife refuge, this tree has been standing for more than 1,200 years.

Every year, a Louisiana town remembers a brief Civil War truce inspired by Masonic brotherhood.

The childhood home of the legendary blues guitarist and singer.

A dramatically eroding canyon thousands of miles from the desert.

A seven-ton black granite monument dedicated to the memory of those who died and those who lived through the 1977 crash of the popular Southern rock band.

The body of an unidentified woman, visible through a glass coffin, was discovered by accident.

A Muppet museum in small-town Mississippi honors the roots of Jim Henson's most beloved creation.