On a dusty county road sit the ruins of a ghost town's abandoned church.

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

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

Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

The oldest active mini golf course in the U.S. has an elegant Art Deco style filled with lush tropical plants.

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

An abandoned, decaying sculpture garden built by an eccentric physician in the 1920s now looks more like a forgotten cemetery.

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

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

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.

Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.

1920's mining camp and environmental education center is serving to protect the surrounding forest, one of the last of its kind in the Pacific Northwest.

An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.

This sweet Southern elixir comes from what may be the oldest grape vine in North America.

This centuries-old graveyard is the final resting place of the Fort Fisher Hermit.

From failed port town to Civil War fort, the ruins of this former defense saw their finest day in the television age.

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

This London marker celebrates the spot where the world-famous English band was founded.

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.