Pensacola's UFO home has withstood many hurricanes—just as the experimental 1960s design intended.

A pink cottage covered in hearts served as a haven and a resting place for LGBTQ activists.

This 15-foot former Johnny Appleseed has given up his apples for donuts and coffee.

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

The peaceful space is adorned by paintings by the famed abstract artist Mark Rothko.

New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.

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

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

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

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

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

This memorial marks the devastating day that Texas City was destroyed in a daisy chain of exploding ships.

This museum chronicles the history of a leprosy quarantine hospital that then became a refuge.

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

A former electrical substation is now home to an eccentric junk art masterpiece.

A store full of vintage and indie toys designed to bring out the kid in even the crustiest of adults.

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

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

A mythical chimera first sculpted in 1936 as a mix of the main animals of Texas livestock.

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

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

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

Locals dubbed it the "Owl Building" because of its bird-like appearance.