Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

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

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

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the "Golden Age" of the American automobile.

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

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

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

Thousands of Mexican Free-Tailed Bats soar around an abandoned storm drain at sunset each summer.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.

Japanese national treasure originally built in 593 CE.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.