The state's oldest continuously operating museum houses more than 5,000 Civil War artifacts.

A museum of unusual collections, mini-towns, and a half-dog, half-alligator.

If New Orleans is the birthplace of the "cocktail," why does their own museum of cocktail memorabilia beg to differ?

Imagine playing a version of Legends of the Hidden Temple, but with a distinctly Southern Gothic flare.

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

It's where the final scene of the beloved Tom Hanks movie was filmed.

The petroleum industry brings you the joys of hydrocarbons and largest collection of antique oil rigs in the world.

World's smallest skyscraper, the product of a remarkable con.

"Dallas’s pretty much only carnivorous plant gallery."

This seaworthy collection was sparked by one man's passion for sailing.

Search for traces of the dinosaurs that roamed here more than 90 million years ago.

In the late 1990s, a mechanic and fan bought this iconic sportscar back from the dead.

The world's second-longest burning light bulb.

An unrealized Taoist palace left abandoned in a Houston suburb.

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

The only international border marker within the United States.

Over 100 million years ago, beach-bound dinosaurs left permanent marks on San Antonio's landscape.

This former Texas landfill is flush with 300 million-year-old fossils, all fit for the taking.

One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.

This small town Texas cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.