Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

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

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

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

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

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.

A 19th-century utopian religious society designed to align with the latitude of Jerusalem.

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

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.

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.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

This statue inspired by Renoir's famous painting embodies the jovial spirit of Key West.

History is hiding at the Morean Center for Clay.

This creative sculpture was a way to "recycle" an old tree.

A sculpture of 18 beautiful clay mandalas on display at Warm Mineral Springs in Florida sends a message of world peace.

Georgia may have been on his mind, but this memorial in Florida shows that Greenville was really Ray Charles's childhood home.

This small Key West museum is packed with dozens of artifacts that illustrate the life of the iconic playwright.

A unique collection of diving equipment spanning antiquity to the present day.

In a city crazy for seashells this museum educates and amazes visitors using the wonder of cast-off exoskeletons.

The highway's southernmost spot is a beloved local attraction.