Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.

Just like the real 36th president of the United States, animatronic LBJ amuses visitors with jokes and stories.

A high-octane shrine to the greatest Texans who ever lived.

Now abandoned, this East Austin school for the disabled began as the "State Colony for the Feeble-minded."

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.

The bad-ass ride of a soul legend, housed in one of the world's few soul museums.

A ceramic-tiled room at the Seelbach Hotel said to have secret tunnels used by Al Capone and a crowd that helped inspire F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby.'

Country fans may flock to Nashville's music scene, but this Appalachian town is where the genre was born.

This historic railroad hotel built from Kansas limestone was once the most popular hotels for traveling salesmen in the midwest.

A 20-foot-tall egg painted in a traditional Czech patterns by the Czech community in Wilson, Kansas.

This artsy public restroom is shaped like a giant john.

Self-built house and sculpture park where the creator can still be seen in a glass coffin.

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

"I did this all while you were watching TV."

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

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.

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

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

The maximum security facility was once thought to have "the bloodiest 47 acres in America."

A beautiful South Korean gate and garden in Little Rock honors American Taekwondo.

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