A magnificent mansion hides a delightful collection of historic timepieces.

Where scientists keep miles of very valuable ice from Antarctica and Greenland from melting.

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

The "father of immunology" used this humble hut to offer the local people some of the world's first free vaccinations.

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

A school-themed restaurant where gastronomy is the core curriculum.

A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

The world's second-longest burning light bulb.

A Texas museum filled with Broncos and Betties.

The man who wasn't there.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

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

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

This grimly-titled Texas cemetery is all that remains of a Wild West settlement with possibly the worst name.

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

This museum showcases the history and contributions of the U.S. Army to the medical industry, both on the battlefield and off.

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

Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.

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

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

One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.

There is an unmarked red button hidden over Houston's Buffalo Bayou that is just begging to pushed...