World's largest precision optical instrument used to detect Einstein's elusive gravity waves.

This Louisiana folk art gallery is a gnarled collection of driftwood homonculi.

This 19th-century sugarcane plantation is one of the most well-preserved estates of its kind, including its original quarters for enslaved laborers.

An ivy-covered arch bridge dedicated to Tejano music singer and legend Rosita Fernandez.

Legend has it the commander of the defenders drew a fateful line in the dirt with his sword just before the final battle.

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

The wood bears a hidden love note carved by a young Johnny Cash.

A tiny waterway named after a ghost story.

A tall smoke stack and boarded-up buildings are all that's left of the pioneering plant.

The 40-foot-tall votive candle is the largest of its kind.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

This hidden sculpture garden full of Wild West art is one of San Antonio's best-kept secrets.

A Texas museum filled with Broncos and Betties.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

Baptisms in troughs and post-sermon rodeos at the world's biggest cowboy church.

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

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

A registered historic landmark shrouded in unsettling local legends.

Of course the grave of JFK's assassin is surrounded by conspiracy theories.

The final resting place of an outlaw, whose legend grew after death.

The final resting place of infamous outlaw Clyde and Marvin Barrow.

This theatre was made famous after Lee Harvey Oswald was captured inside watching a film.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.