Its incredible collection preserves 170 years of sewing machine history.

The modest childhood home where the baseball legend and Yankees star learned to hit from both sides of the plate.

Songwriter Leon Russell transformed this church into a recording studio used by many legendary musicians.

Dad jokes and wordplay abound in this comic fake cemetery.

A museum and apothecary garden devoted to the history of frontier medicine.

Sitting in the arguable birthplace of the Wild West, this museum holds the largest collection of bronco busting bric-a-brac in the world.

Human remains in varying states of decay are strewn about this Texas State facility for scientific study.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

Home to the story of the outlaw turned funhouse mummy, Elmer McCurdy.

This abandoned, windowless concrete block is one of the strangest buildings in Tulsa.

These massive mitts are made of 30 tons of devotional bronze.

Just like the real 36th president of the United States, animatronic LBJ amuses visitors with jokes and stories.

Controversially claiming the title of world's biggest bass drum, UT's Big Bertha was once made radioactive by the Manhattan Project.

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

This beautiful grotto is one of those places where you can't believe you're just outside Austin.

A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

A peg-legged tightrope walker did not reveal his name as he was dying, and so he was buried as “Rope Walker."

To honor a beloved Austin radio DJ a neighborhood bridge has been covered in a loving mosaic.

An unusual bed & breakfast made of papercrete.

A small island hides in plain sight on Austin's Lady Bird Lake.

A collection of massive stacked rocks in Texas includes a snarky note on the benefits of modern technology.

This eclectic Austin curiosity shop is home to all things strange and unusual.

A master plumber has turned his love of art and toilets into a folk museum that's not taking the piss.