A tower that pays homage to local sailors who perished under the waves.

The oldest functional consecrated church on Mustang Island.

This tiny, hurricane-resistant house in Galveston is one of the city's most notable architectural oddities.

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

This little dolphin is the first monument dedicated to the LGBTQ+ community in the southern United States.

A fruit-loving town welcomes visitors with a giant melon set against the sky.

These half-buried combine harvesters just off Route 66 are an homage to the Cadillac Ranch.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

A somber monument commemorates the site of a Native American reservation marked by suffering.

The final resting place of the most famous outlaw in the Old West.

Hidden in the New Mexico desert southeast of Roswell, nine small deep lakes formed inside sinkholes.

A wacky, UFO-shaped house in a suburban neighborhood.

This Texas windmill field celebrates the power and majesty of the very winds that blow.

A massive tribute to this small county's top agricultural product.

The innocent intentions of this monument are somewhat lost in the sculpture's muscled imagery.

There's a 12-foot-tall replica of the Washington Monument hidden under a manhole nearby.

The National Park Service’s best-kept secret with views that rival any in D.C.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

A park and memorial dedicated to the victims of the deadliest school massacre in American history.

The stone marker that Mason and Dixon placed at the eastern end of the famous north-south border they surveyed.

The meeting of the northwestern corner of Delaware, the northeastern corner of Maryland, and the southern edge of Pennsylvania.

A cavernous three-story, 43,800-square-foot basement that was forgotten about for 60 years.

The monument's pointy aluminum tip has been melted down by repeated lightning strikes.

A memorial dedicated to a highly decorated Marine and Korean War veteran, who also happened to be a horse.