The third tallest lighthouse in America once guided author Stephen Crane to safety.

One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.

Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

The humble home where the famous beat author lived briefly and wrote one of his most famous works.

The world's tallest statue of an American hero.

Sid Vicious famously punched a hole in the wall of this iconic music venue.

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause.

Final resting place of Geronimo, Quanah Parker, and the first atomic gun ever fired.

This soda factory is one of the last in America to use real cane sugar despite the protestations of Dr Pepper.

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

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

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

A starship has landed in Texas, a welcome break for weary travelers from a drab stretch of I-35.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.