A tribute to the little-known group of women who were the first ever to fly aircraft in the U.S. military.

A small "palace" and museum made of, and devoted entirely, to salt.

This historical air terminal in Houston is slowly becoming an aviation museum dedicated to the city's aeronautical history.

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

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

At the "Garage Mahal" in Houston, car culture is about more than just driving.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

The only international border marker within the United States.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

The 19th-century pharmacy (now a used bookstore) was featured in James Joyce’s "Ulysses," and has changed very little to this day.

A museum that cashes in on its infamous little people while teaching you a thing or two about the Irish fey.

A salt lake dotted with steaming limestone chimneys.

For one day every month Barcelona's Estació de França transforms into a market for model trains.

The world's only known button museum.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

A wealth of local folk art, antiques, and curios, without ever leaving your car.

A (slightly) grownup take on the classic retro arcade.

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

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

Bioluminescent firefly squid light up this Japanese fishing port.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.