Legend has it the commander of the defenders drew a fateful line in the dirt with his sword just before the final battle.

Two small markers remember the Alamo's feline protectors.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

This big empty pig is a nostalgic throwback to mid-20th-century Texas barbecue.

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

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

A wonderfully curated used bookstore in an airport.

This quirky museum has a collection of more than 15,000 bobblehead dolls.

The bugs crawling down the front of this office building are almost as big as a '68 VW Beetle.

This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.

Once a speakeasy operated by Al Capone, this Milwaukee cigar bar is now a haven for ghost hunters.

A largely forgotten and touching neoclassical marble fountain overlooking a bear mound effigy.

Before he was America’s most famous preservationist, John Muir was an ingenious mechanical inventor.

Hidden away in the city of Madison, Wisconsin is a nearly forgotten home that Frank Lloyd Wright built for a childhood friend.

Legend says Dungeons and Dragons players can get their dice blessed at the creator of the game's memorial.

Statue dedicated to the star of an old television show.

Six tiny houses built for working class people form the largest intentional cluster of Wright homes anywhere.

A giant, Gilded Age mansion that once belonged to the beer baron of Milwaukee.

A place to eat for on-the-run agents and espionage enthusiasts.

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.

A 115-year-old restored German dining hall awaits those who venture beneath the Minnesota State Capitol.

A stone marker memorializes the spot where the King broke up a street fight with a classic karate stance.

The remains of a enormous earthen figure of unknown origins cuts across a rural Wisconsin road.

143 feet of leaping muskie whose mouth can be used as a wedding venue.