Foragers once flocked to this big beautiful bayou to hunt for pearls.

A decaying concrete oil tanker served as a disposal location for bootleg hootch.

These boots are made for selfies.

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

Minimalist modern art on a repurposed military base in rural Texas.

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.

Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.

In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.

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

Once in disrepair, this popular Texas stop along iconic Route 66 has been restored to its past glory.

A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.

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

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

Life's work of sculptor Elisabet Ney remains preserved in her last studio.

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

A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.

A small peaceful park and waterfall tucked amid the urban grind of Midtown Manhattan.

The name of this tiny pocket park tucked between two buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side is Latin for its location: "seventy-one."

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

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.