Baptisms in troughs and post-sermon rodeos at the world's biggest cowboy church.

The world's tallest statue of an American hero.

A registered historic landmark shrouded in unsettling local legends.

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

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

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

This tiny, hurricane-resistant house in Galveston is one of the city's most notable architectural oddities.

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

A health museum containing a 27’’½-foot intestine.

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

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

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

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

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

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

A curious memento mori hangs in the magnificent Cathedral of Segovia.

A curious carving hides on a marble column in the Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba.

A 16th-century Andalusian palace.

Vibrant street art created with mixed media.

Spain's unique Mosque-Cathedral has been a place of worship for both Muslims and Christians throughout its history.

The Cathedral of Salamanca has a number of unusual carvings but none so surprising as a modern astronaut.

Of the many chalices in the running for the Holy Grail, this one in Valencia Cathedral sure looks the part.

This ancient Spanish castle sits high upon a hilltop.

The final resting place of the great navigator, or maybe his brother.