One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.

A park filled with vibrant mosaics created by more than 300 folk artists.

For nearly a century, one of the oldest barbershops in Texas has been cutting hair the old fashioned way.

The mansion-like building is packed with Texas pride.

Giant heads occasionally litter the industrial Houston neighborhood where sculptor David Adickes has his studio.

Inmates dig the graves at the largest prison cemetery in the U.S., the final resting place of both cowboys and Indians.

In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.

An immersive art experience built by local arts collaborative, Factory Obscura, in the building formerly known as The Womb, a psychedelic arts center founded by the frontman of the Flaming Lips.

An ever-growing collection of rare and strange objects owned by local Arkansas illusionist Maxwell Blade.

This quirky outpost and gallery inside a former church is an unexpected trove of handcrafted art.

A local dive where religious kitsch, Southern identity, and queer culture collide.

With print dying, this local paper keeps the lights on by doubling as a stunning cafe and cocktail bar.

Not everything is bigger in Texas.

A spring-fed pool so deep it's used for scuba diving as well as swimming.

One of the oldest continuously-operated gay bars in the United States is allegedly haunted by Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams.

The narrowest street in Paris.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.

A stonemason's hilarious revenge came in the form of this peculiarly positioned gargoyle.

These paved rills bring freshwater into Altstadt and could spell wedding bells for whoever stumbles into the waters.

The bank that helped fund the Mexican-American War and the purchase of Alaska met its downfall after helping Augusto Pinochet launder money.

The 5.5-mile ring of steel posts around the Capitol Building is one of the largest (and most uniform) of its kind in the world.

This statue of the "father of television" stands prominently in the United States Capitol.

One critic described it as "middle Mussolini, early Ramses, and late Neiman-Marcus." Another called it an architectural "natural disaster."