Steep canyon walls hide a forested oasis in the West Texas desert.

This constitutionally sound Muffler Man harkens back to the days these attractions were a must-see.

These half-buried combine harvesters just off Route 66 are an homage to the Cadillac Ranch.

The legend of a local monster still haunts this small town.

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

Only museum dedicated to women pilots, with personal artifacts from Amelia Earhart and other aviatrixes.

A peculiar forest that was handcrafted for government experiments.

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

The largest land animal skull ever discovered.

Witness to many historic moments in early Texas history.

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

The world's only museum devoted solely to the art and collection of action figures.

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

Circus cemetery for all the “showmen under God’s big top.”

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

In Paris, Texas they have their own Eiffel Tower, it just has a cowboy hat on it.

In Paradise Cemetery resides a mysterious headstone with a strange inscription.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

This theatre was made famous after Lee Harvey Oswald was captured inside watching a film.

A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

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

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.