This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.

Imagine playing a version of Legends of the Hidden Temple, but with a distinctly Southern Gothic flare.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

This historical air terminal in Houston is slowly becoming an aviation museum dedicated to the city's aeronautical history.

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

A mysterious find dredged from Louisiana waters.

The only museum dedicated to the history of the "Magic Lantern," a medieval slide projector.

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

Park filled with machinery that drove the southern agriculture and oil industries forward.

Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

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

Official museum, hall of fame, and repository of the Texas Rangers.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

DIY collection of eclectic holdings.

Witness to many historic moments in early Texas history.

Scale replica of China's ancient terracotta tomb warriors and Forbidden City are the side project of an eccentric millionaire.