The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

In 1958, an MIT fraternity pledge laid down on this bridge and instituted a new, unique unit of measurement.

No one messes with the Massachusetts sacred cod, not this time...

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

An anonymous art project beneath Longfellow Bridge where hundreds of trophies line the steel support beams.

The former site of an all-but-forgotten colonial landmark is now remembered by an often overlooked bas relief.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

This bridge was the birthplace of a unit of measurement based on a fraternity joke.

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

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

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

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

A free, canine-friendly alternative watering hole near the more famous Barton Springs.

Just like the real 36th president of the United States, animatronic LBJ amuses visitors with jokes and stories.

This simple frog painting created by musician Daniel Johnston embodies the spirit of Austin.

After 97 years of constant vigilance from the dome of the Texas State Capitol, the original Goddess of Liberty retired to a life of climate-controlled leisure.

Locals dubbed it the "Owl Building" because of its bird-like appearance.

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

This location holds the truth to what truly happened that faithful night.

Dedicated to "the father of U.S. life insurance."

A sewing machine tycoon built this miniature castle for the people and to beautify a lakeshore.