This beacon for pre-radar pilots once guided Charles Lindbergh to a safe touchdown in Tulsa.

Once in disrepair, this popular Texas stop along iconic Route 66 has been restored to its past glory.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

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

This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.

Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.

Rolling sand dunes of the Sahara... in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.

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

The highest point in Texas is capped by a big silver pyramid.

This underwater old Texas hill town only resurfaces during harsh drought.

This small town Texas cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.

A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.

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

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

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

DIY collection of eclectic holdings.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million Mexican free-tail bats.

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.