A taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

An ivy-covered arch bridge dedicated to Tejano music singer and legend Rosita Fernandez.

Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

This beautiful grotto is one of those places where you can't believe you're just outside Austin.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.

A recreated Stonehenge stands in a country field, complete with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries.

Home of the International Space Hall of Fame.

This is one really big nut.

A cave's rare beauty held a cavernous secret hidden underground.

Though the original building has been demolished, these massive bronze doors were saved.

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

This enormous World War II relic is one of the largest wooden structures in the world.

Oldest building in California still in use.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

One of the few remaining carousels built by master amusement park carver Charles I.D. Looff.

An ornate Art Deco tile mosaic representing Nebraskan life, both modern and prehistoric.

When an ancient supervolcano erupted, some of Nebraska's prehistoric animals were forever preserved in ash.

Site of the 1879 Cheyenne Outbreak and the site where famed Sioux chief Crazy Horse met his fate.

Other-worldly rock formations and ancient fossils abound in this unique stretch of Nebraska badlands.

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.