If New Orleans is the birthplace of the "cocktail," why does their own museum of cocktail memorabilia beg to differ?

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

The folks at the Devil's Rope Museum want you to get hooked on barbed wire history.

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

World's smallest skyscraper, the product of a remarkable con.

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

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

A serene temple with stunning stained glass hides in downtown Dallas.

The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.

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

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

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

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

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

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

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

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

The country music legend's grave is surrounded by Astroturf because fans kept plucking out the grass.

An autonomous oak in Alabama.

Designed by Maya Lin, the memorial honors 41 individuals who died fighting for equal rights between 1954 and 1968.

A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.

Orr Park's dead trees have been carved into a menagerie of whimsical visages.