America's largest man-made forest was planted in an effort to bring back the past.

This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.

The world’s largest combined collection of U.S. and Russian aircraft got its start in a poultry building.

Small plaque marks the spot, but the true center is located about half a mile away on a private pig farm.

This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.

The U.S. Navy's last diesel-electric submarine rests half-submerged in the middle of Portland.

The only surviving piece of a submarine said to be the most decorated vessel in U.S. history.

Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.

A city park that sits on top of a freeway.

Resting place of the Texas A&M canine mascots, who watch the game from the grave with their own miniature scoreboard.

Some of the best pastries in "the Czech heritage capital of Texas" come from a gas station off I-35.

The "world’s largest honky-tonk" also has its own indoor rodeo arena.

Austin’s local mountain isn’t really a mountain at all.

This strategically-placed fountain creates the magnificent illusion of mustangs galloping across a river.

This huge repository of local history housed in an old J.C.Penney's is home to the largest model train set in Southeast Texas.

The world's tallest statue of an American hero.

Campus tradition says couples who walk beneath this enormous oak will stay together forever.

Decades of discarded bottle caps line this alleyway, a fixture of Texas A&M.

Home to an endangered salamander, a full moon celebration, and a large spring-fed outdoor swimming pool.

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

A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.

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

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

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