One of the few surviving "Wigwam"-themed motels.

Amazing taxidermy dioramas from the 1960s in a cement building meant to look like an ice cave.

Prehistoric animals decorate this popular outdoor park.

The world's longest known cave system.

Modern technology and live displays tell the story of the Pacific during WWII for the Internet generation.

This historic hotel on Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park has a storied history of gangsters and baseball greats.

A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.

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

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

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

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

This failed condo development was reborn as a street art hub.

The world's tallest statue of an American hero.

American bison herd descending directly from a Bronx Zoo breeding program that saved the species from extinction.

Final resting place of Geronimo, Quanah Parker, and the first atomic gun ever fired.

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

Official museum, hall of fame, and repository of the Texas Rangers.

This soda factory is one of the last in America to use real cane sugar despite the protestations of Dr Pepper.

Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.

A starship has landed in Texas, a welcome break for weary travelers from a drab stretch of I-35.

Decaying military base deactivated in the 70s is now visited by urban explorers and military enthusiasts.

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

A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.

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