This former Texas landfill is flush with 300 million-year-old fossils, all fit for the taking.

Tucked away on an empty wooded lot in suburban Oklahoma City lie the remnants of an abandoned circus camp.

Sitting in the arguable birthplace of the Wild West, this museum holds the largest collection of bronco busting bric-a-brac in the world.

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

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

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

A peg-legged tightrope walker did not reveal his name as he was dying, and so he was buried as “Rope Walker."

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

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

A small, peaceful sculpture garden with a grim memorial to a disaster that took place a few blocks away.